{"id":4571,"date":"2023-09-02T11:14:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T11:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/iconic-cgi-artist-says-soon-therell-be-a-totally-ai-generated-movie"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:14:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T11:14:26","slug":"iconic-cgi-artist-says-soon-therell-be-a-totally-ai-generated-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/iconic-cgi-artist-says-soon-therell-be-a-totally-ai-generated-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic CGI Artist Says Soon There'll Be a Totally AI-Generated Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deep Fake With actors and writers on strike and protesting against artificial intelligence as an existential threat to their livelihoods, a CGI pioneer who worked on iconic movies such as James Cameron’s “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” predicts there will be a completely AI movie in the future that will fool everybody, according to a new interview with Metro. Steve Williams, a big name in VFX history, likened the hypothetical scenario to Orson Welles’ famous radio play “The War of the Worlds,” which fooled some people into thinking that an alien invasion was actually underway. “The litmus test will be like a ‘War Of the Worlds’ scenario,” Williams told the news outlet. “If you remember the 1938 broadcast, with Orson Welles and aliens are attacking and everyone\u2019s freaking out \u2014 they didn\u2019t tell you [it was fake].” In the interview, Williams claims to have been prescient about the use of CGI and AI, including predicting the use of deepfakes of politicians. “That\u2019s why I referred to it in my early interviews in the early \u201890s and said you\u2019re dealing with a weapon,” he said. He also claims to have predicted the use of AI to resurrect dead actors. “I warned about it because you get into artists\u2019 rights at that point,” he said. Future Weird Besides “Terminator 2,” Williams has worked on other iconic movies such as Jurassic Park, which is famous for its CGI dinosaurs, and Cameron’s “The Abyss,” which featured otherworldy CGI of water sculpted to look like people’s…Iconic CGI Artist Says Soon There'll Be a Totally AI-Generated Movie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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