#James Cameron Joins board of huge AI firm – Destructoid

We simply discovered through The Hollywood Reporter that director James Cameron has joined the board of administrators at Stability AI. Sure, the identical James Cameron who as soon as made a film the place the heroes forestall an evil AI from destroying the world.

Steady AI is the corporate behind the Steady Diffusion text-to-image generative AI mannequin. That’s the tech chargeable for turning phrases into unintentionally nightmarish pictures that solely the bots on Twitter can take pleasure in.

Cameron has all the time been on the forefront of utilizing probably the most superior digital tech to push filmmaking ahead, he stated, “I’ve spent my profession in search of out rising applied sciences that push the very boundaries of what’s doable, all within the service of telling unimaginable tales,” he stated. “I used to be on the forefront of CGI over three many years in the past, and I’ve stayed on the leading edge since. Now, the intersection of generative AI and CGI picture creation is the subsequent wave. The convergence of those two completely totally different engines of creation will unlock new methods for artists to inform tales in methods we may have by no means imagined. Stability AI is poised to steer this transformation. I’m delighted to collaborate with Sean, Prem, and the Stability AI group as they form the way forward for all visible media.”

Cameron’s transfer has been met with a number of derision on-line. Some have give you insults as devastating as “Not even Michael Bay would’ve finished that”, as soon as once more proving you can’t change humankind’s means for sass.

This isn’t the primary time James Cameron has made the information for his reference to AI know-how. He’d not too long ago been placed on blast for the subpar 4K remasters of titles similar to Aliens and True Lies, remasters he’d doubled down on by accusing its critics of caring an excessive amount of.

Now you can benefit from the irony of getting lived to see Cameron main an organization geared toward slowly destroying the world not with cool lasers however through terrible content material and the ridiculous quantity of pointless carbon emissions that it requires.