James Cameron’s motion pictures are sometimes on the chopping fringe of visible results expertise — particularly the “Avatar” movies, with their heroic blue Na’vi characters dropped at life via efficiency seize.

However that doesn’t make Cameron a fan of generative AI.

In a CBS Sunday Morning interview tied to the upcoming launch of “Avatar: Hearth and Ash,” the director acknowledged that efficiency seize (the place an actor’s efficiency is recorded as a template for digital artists) can sound much like genAI. However in actuality, he stated it’s “the alternative.”

“For years, there was this sense that, ‘Oh they’re doing one thing unusual with computer systems, they usually’re changing actors,’” Cameron stated. “When actually, as soon as you actually drill down and also you see what we’re doing, it’s a celebration of the actor-director second.”

Certainly, the CBS phase exhibits members of the “Avatar” solid performing their underwater scenes in a 250,000-gallon water tank.

“Go to the opposite finish of the spectrum and also you’ve obtained generative AI, the place they will make up a personality, they will make up an actor, they will make up a efficiency from scratch with a textual content immediate,” Cameron added. “No, that’s horrifying … That’s precisely what we’re not doing.”