Currently, Hollywood is in a writers' and actors' strike, partly caused by the intentions of those in the most financial branch to use Artificial Intelligence to get more content out or faster. Here we are very cautious with Artificial Intelligence, like should not be used as a search engine after our experience when we tried bard. But if people are looking for someone in authority to oppose AI writing, there's James Cameron, director of Terminator 2, Avatar and Titanic.
James Cameron has no intention of using AI to write the script for any of his films. In a new interview with CTV News, Cameron expressed his doubts about the ability of AI robots to "write a good story«.
James Cameron has nothing good to say about using an AI to write scripts
According to James Cameron, he does not believe that "a disembodied mind that limits itself to regurgitating what other incarnated minds have said, about the lives they have had, about love, about lies, about fear, about mortality, and that puts it all together in a salad of words and then he regurgitates it, he will never have something that will move the public«. In a sentence that seems to be a total support for the striking screenwriters, he commented that «you have to be human to write that«. He continued with that he doesn't know anyone who's even thinking about having an AI write a script of a movie or series.
He even went so far as to make a challenge: «Let's wait 20 years, and if an AI wins an Oscar for best screenplay, I think we have to take it seriously.«. Cameron, as director and screenwriter of several Terminator films, was concerned about the use of Artificial Intelligence: «You have to follow the money. Who builds these things? They are either built to command market shares, so they are teaching you greed, or they are built for defensive purposes, so they are teaching you paranoia. I think AI weaponization is the biggest danger. I think we'll get into the equivalent of a nuclear arms race with AI, and if we don't build it ourselves, surely others will, and then it will escalate… You could imagine an AI in a theater of combat, the whole thing fought over by the computers at a speed at which humans can no longer intercede, and you have no ability to de-escalate". Even he himself is aware that he made films on this subject, to which he added «I warned you in 1984. And you didn't listen to me!«.
Source: Variety
