James Cameron explains how AI plays a role in movie-making process

James Cameron has recently explained how artificial intelligence plays a role in movie-making process.

During an appearance on latest episode of Boz to the Future podcast, the Avatar director, who joined Stability AI‘s Board of Directors last year, shared what should happen if the movie-makers would like to see big blockbusters.

“The goal was to understand the space, to understand what’s on the minds of the developers,” he explained.

Cameron said, “What are they targeting? What’s their development cycle? How much resources you have to throw at it to create a new model that does a purpose-built thing, and my goal was to try to integrate it into a VFX workflow.”

“And it’s not just hypothetical,” continued the 70-year-old.

The Titanic director mentioned, “If we want to continue to see the kinds of movies that I’ve always loved and that I like to make and that I will go to see — Dune, Dune: Part Two, or one of my movies or big effects-heavy, CG-heavy movies — we’ve got to figure out how to cut the cost of that in half.”

Cameron pointed out, “Now that’s not about laying off half the staff and at the effects company.”

“That’s about doubling their speed to completion on a given shot, so your cadence is faster and your throughput cycle is faster, and artists get to move on and do other cool things and then other cool things, right? That’s my sort of vision for that,” added the director.

In another latest interview, Cameron also noted that generative “AI users should be discouraged from feeding prompts into the software such as in the style of James Cameron” or “in the style of Zack Snyder,” saying that these kinds of rip-offs “make me a little bit queasy”.