James Cameron rules out ever using horrifying' AI actors

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"James Cameron says that he finds the idea that AI can create an actor horrifying. In a new interview, the Titanic director talked about using technology and artificial intelligence in films, like his forthcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash, and why he believed generative AI couldn't create something new that's never been seen. For years, there was this sense, 'Oh, they're doing something strange with computers and they're replacing actors', when in fact, once you really drill down and you see what we're doing, it's a celebration of the actor-director moment, he told the CBS Sunday Morning show about the process of what he called performance capture, which he used extensively in Fire and Ash. The Oscar winner explained how it worked: actors such as Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana would first film the underwater scenes set on the Earth-like moon Pandora in an almost 250,000-gallon tank. We use a whole bunch of cameras to capture the body performance of the actor, the filmmaker said. And we use a single camera (or now we use actually two) to video their face. They are in a close-up 100 per cent of t"

The Independent covers developing stories across reproductive rights, climate change, and Big Tech and solicits donations to fund reporters on the ground. The outlet investigates issues such as the finances of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC and produces documentaries like 'The A Word' about American women fighting for reproductive rights. The Independent emphasizes parsing facts from messaging, claims trust across the political spectrum, and maintains free access without paywalls funded by voluntary support. James Cameron rejects generative AI replacing actors and explains the performance capture process used in Avatar: Fire and Ash to preserve actor-driven performances.

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