By Andrew Pulver
Publication Date: 2025-12-01 14:21:00
Avatar director James Cameron has called AI actors “terrible” and said generative AI technology is “average.”
Cameron spoke to CBS on Sunday morning ahead of the release of the third Avatar film, subtitled “Fire and Ash,” and was asked about the groundbreaking technology he used in his films. After praising the motion-capture performance as “a celebration of the actor-director moment,” Cameron expressed his disdain for artificial intelligence. “Go to the other end of the spectrum (from motion capture) and you have generative AI where they can invent a character. They can invent an actor. They can invent a performance from scratch with a text prompt. It’s like, no. That’s terrifying to me. That’s the opposite. That’s exactly who we are.” not do.”
He added: “I don’t want a computer to do what I can do with actors, which I’m proud of. I don’t want to replace actors, I love working with actors.”
Cameron, who is…
