James Cameron hopes that generative artificial intelligence can relieve pressure on Hollywood results.
The Oscar winner discussed AI and cinema with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on the last episode of the Podcast “Boz to the Future”.
Cameron was frank on technology, which was a source of controversy in the entertainment industry. The growing prevalence of AI in the film production process has contributed to triggering the Sag-Aftra and WGA 2023 strike and, more recently, caused a debate before the 2025 Academy Awards.
Although Cameron has already criticized AI, he joined the AI stability board of directors, the company behind the stable dissemination of the image text model in 2024.
During the interview, Cameron said that the decision came from his desire to understand technology.
“My goal was not necessarily to make a stack of shitty money. The goal was to understand space. To understand what is in the minds of developers,” said Cameron. “What are they targeting? What is their development cycle?
Cameron thinks that filmmakers have to kiss AI to reduce the cost of successful and heavy “successful” films. “We must understand how to reduce the cost of this in two,” he said.
Hollywood budgets have decreased due to several factors, including studios that order less content and a slow box office.
“It is not a question of dismissing half of the staff and the effect company,” said Cameron. “It is a question of doubling their speed of completion on a given shot, so your cadence is faster and your flow cycle is faster, and the artists move and do other nice things, then other nice things, right? This is my kind of vision for that.”
Cameron also talked about the opposition to the use of others work to train AI models – a major point of discord not only among those working in films but among all artists.
Companies like Openai, which make Chatgpt, have been criticized for having swallowed intellectual property to train their AI models. A group of authors, including the actress Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, continued the company for copyright violation.
“A large part of the hesitation in Hollywood and entertainment in general, are problems of source material for training data, and which deserves what, and the protection of copyright and all these kinds of things. I think people are watching all this bad,” said Cameron. “I am an artist. Whoever is an artist, whoever is a human being, is a model.”
“You cannot control my entry. You can’t tell me what to see and what to see and where to go,” said Cameron. “My contribution is everything I choose and everything that has accumulated throughout my life. My outing, each script that I write, must be judged to find out if it is too close, too plagiarism, whatever.”
Cameron representatives did not respond to a request for comments from Business Insider.
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