Overview
- In a CBS Sunday Morning interview tied to Avatar: Fire and Ash, Cameron contrasted performance capture that elevates actors with text-prompted fabrications.
- He said AI models trained on existing work yield an "average" and cannot express a writer’s lived experience or an actor’s idiosyncrasies.
- Cameron added that AI could have a narrow role in making visual-effects work cheaper.
- At the Marrakech Film Festival, jury member Jenna Ortega called AI soulless and warned such output could become "mental junk food" that viewers reject.
- Fellow jurors and peers, including Bong Joon Ho and Celine Song, voiced sharp skepticism as the earlier unveiling of AI performer Tilly Norwood kept the issue in focus.