Key Takeaways

James Cameron, 71, is the director of movies like “Avatar” and “Titanic.”

Generative AI can automatically generate scenes, characters and objects based on text prompts, a prospect Cameron called “horrifying.”

Cameron uses performance capture to create lifelike characters for “Avatar,” a technique he called “the opposite” of AI.

James Cameron, the 71-year-old director behind movies like Avatar and Titanic , is not a fan of generative AI, calling the technology “horrifying.”

In a CBS Sunday Morning interview tied to the December 19 release of Avatar: Fire and Ash , Cameron weighed in on generative AI, which makes up characters, actors and performances from scratch with just a text prompt. The AI figures out by itself how to carry out what the prompt asks for.

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