You don't need AI to create soulless depictions of humanity, James Cameron already does that. I think he is just protecting his bread and butter from automation.

Snark aside, I grew up loving his movies. As a film student, I loved taking them apart in critique for his mastery of technical filmmaking. As a professor, I used the DVD extras from his films to show just how forward-thinking his knowledge was of VFX. But this Avatar garbage is just the result of a kid who finally leveled up enough to produce the comic book he wrote when he was 8. It's awful.

In the future, "prestige television" will just be TV that uses real people in the production cycle.

Maybe we even get a channel that's "100% Human" and you need to spend $40/mo to subscribe

He's a friend of Elon Musk fyi

He's not wrong, but I don't think the James Cameron of the last decade has any room to criticize others for not creating sufficiently "sacred" art.

Agree.

If its truthful (which will be impossible to tell) i will actively support any project that explicitly states no ai used in its making.

Of course he is scared, he's been coasting on rehashing Pocahontas but with blue aliens for a decade. He might actually have to put effort into it if anybody can make a movie.

The age of artisanal media will be interesting.