Filmmaker James Cameron, speaking to CBS ahead of the release of 'Avatar: Fire and Ash', described the idea of generating actors and performances using a text prompt as "horrifying," saying it is the opposite of what he hoped to achieve with the technology developed for the 'Avatar' film series. Cameron, who has dedicated the latter part of his career to the franchise as a means to explore innovation in cinema, praised its motion-capture innovations but expressed disdain for generative AI as a substitute for human creative input. He insisted that generative AI can never create something completely original, based on the underlying transformer-based architecture that powers these systems. Cameron is also the director of Stability AI, a company that delivers professional-grade generative AI tools for content creators.