James Cameron will reportedly open Avatar 3 with a title card saying no generative AI was used to make the movie
James Cameron will reportedly open Avatar 3 with a title card saying no generative AI was used to make the movie
Avatar: Fire and Ash releases later this year
James Cameron has reportedly revealed an anti-AI title card will open up Avatar 3, officially titled Avatar: Fire and Ash. The Oscar-winning director shared the news in a Q&A session in New Zealand attended by Twitter user Josh Harding.
Sharing a picture of Cameron at the event, they wrote: "Such an incredible talk. Also, James Cameron revealed that Avatar: Fire and Ash will begin with a title card after the 20th Century and Lightstorm logos that 'no generative A.I. was used in the making of this movie'."
Cameron has been vocal in the past abo6ut his feelings on artificial intelligence, speaking to CTV news in 2023 about AI-written scripts. "I just don’t personally believe that a disembodied mind that’s just regurgitating what other embodied minds have said – about the life that they’ve had, about love, about lying, about fear, about mortality – and just put it all together into a word salad and then regurgitate it," he told the publication. "I don’t believe that’s ever going to have something that’s going to move an audience. You have to be human to write that. I don’t know anyone that’s even thinking about having AI write a screenplay."
Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the 4K transfers of Aliens, True Lies, and The Abyss.
But I applaud the efforts nonetheless.
AI upscaling isn't the same thing as generative AI.
One makes the image a larger resolution just shifting pixels around. The other can create entirely new scenes.
AI or "algorithm" upscaling fundamentally creates something out of nothing. That's what upscaling is, so it is generative because its quite literally generating "guesses" at what should be there, pixel by pixel.
Its literally the trope in movies where they're reviewing grainy security can footage and someone says "enhance" and its magically a crystal clear image. Its just that we have technology to do that now.
I'd agree there's a semantics argument that using AI for upscaling is different than creating new, but its just that semantics.
James Cameron doesn’t do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is James Cameron!
The bravest pioneer
"It's ok, only the nice computer simulations helped us make this movie, not the bad ones!"
Reminds me of seeing a disclaimer in the credits of animated movies saying no Motion Capture was used
So would his stance change if we move past basic llms and have models that can generate coherent innovative ideas that were not learned?
Only when we can accurately point to any one idea that a human has had that hasn't been a product of previous information.
With historian work, I think it's possible to say this idea appeared at about this point in time and space, even if it was refined by many previous minds. For example, you can tell about when an engineering invention or an art style appeared. Of course you will always have a specialists debate about who was the actual pioneer (often influenced by patriotism), but I guess we can at least have a consensus of when it starts to actually impact the society.
Also, maybe we can have an algorithm to determine if a generated result was part of the learning corpus or not.
2030's gonna be interesting
fingers crossed.
if it's not hand animated on 1s I care about as much as the last 2
It is hand animated on 1's. On 0's too
The entire industry composites final shots with Nuke. Every damn studio in VFX is training or has trained its compositirs to use CopyCat, the Foundry's generative AI roto/paint tool. So like... this is a lie.