{"id":168155,"date":"2025-11-30T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168155\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:57:08","slug":"james-cameron-says-its-horrifying-to-me-that-ai-can-make-up-an-actor-it-creates-a-performance-from-scratch-with-a-text-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168155\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron Says It\u2019s \u2018Horrifying to Me\u2019 that AI Can \u2018Make Up an Actor\u2019: It Creates a \u2018Performance From Scratch With a Text Prompt\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Safe to say <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000116\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Cameron<\/a> will never cast Tilly Norwood in a movie.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview with CBS\u2019 Sunday Morning, the director of \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088247\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Terminator<\/a>\u201d explained that even before the invention of generative AI, some Hollywood insiders thought he would use computer graphics to replace actors as he was developing the first \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0499549\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avatar<\/a>\u201d film in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled, \u201cFor years, there was this sense that, \u2018Oh, they\u2019re doing something strange with computers and they\u2019re replacing actors,\u2019 when in fact, once you really drill down and you see what we\u2019re doing, it\u2019s a celebration of the actor-director moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cameron said now that generative AI is invading the industry, the idea that the technology could substitute for a performer is \u201chorrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, go to the other end of the spectrum, and you\u2019ve got generative AI, where they can make up a character,\u201d Cameron added. \u201cThey can make up an actor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Safe to say James Cameron will never cast Tilly Norwood in a movie. During a recent interview with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3213,3214,321,3215,93,695,3211,61,60,270,43,3212,904,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-168155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-movies","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-stars","20":"tag-television","21":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}