James Cameron says that the IA can cut the costs of cinema, but should not cost people their work

James Cameron He is not ready to deliver the cinema to artificial intelligence, but he is open to let him help behind the scenes.

After notoriously warning the world on the AI ​​with The terminator In 1984, and doubling the concerns recently compared to last year, the legendary director joined the Board of Directors of Stability Ai with a very specific goal of finding ways to make bigger and heavy films more convenient without sacrificing the works.

Cameron spoke of this movement in perspective on the Boz to the future Podcast, explaining that his interest in the IA is all focused on integration, not on replacement.

“The goal was to understand the space, to understand what’s in the developers’ mind. What are they targeted? What is their development cycle?

“How many resources you have to launch to create a new model that does something specifically built and my goal was to try to integrate it into a vfx workflow.”

The public will always want to see movies like Dune: Second part, AvatarAnd other important glasses led by the VFX, but these types of productions are not cheap and if the studies want to continue illuminating them, something must give.

“And it’s not just hypothetical. If we want to continue seeing the types of movies that I have always loved and that I like to do and that I will go to see Dunes, dunes: part twoOr one of my films or great heavy and heavy films of the effects-we have to understand how to cut the cost of the one in half. “

This does not mean cutting people, it means making the pipeline faster and efficient.

“Now it is not a question of firing half of the staff and the effects of effects. It is about doubled their speed when completing a certain shot, so your cadence is faster and your productivity cycle is faster and the artists can go on and do other interesting things and then other interesting things, right? This is my type of vision for that.”

Cameron’s socket is not in line with some of the most aggressive rhetorical of adoption of the AI ​​come from technological companies and is rooted in the protection of art that makes these enormous films work.

It is also an evolution of the director who, in 2023, derived the idea that the IA could ever write a truly fantastic film.

“I personally do not think that a disengaged mind that is only regurgging what the other incorporated minds have said – on the life they have had, on love, on lie, on fear, on mortality – and put everything together in a word salad and then rejected … I don’t believe in this [they] Having something that will move an audience, “Cameron said to CTV News.

While he is willing to let the IA helps to move the pixels faster, it is still skeptical that he never writes a script that is worth taking care.

“We are waiting for 20 years and if an I win an Oscar for the best script, I think we have to take them seriously.”

Until then, Cameron seems more interested in seeing how the IA can serve artists and not replace them.