James Cameron Joins board of big AI company

We just learned via The Hollywood Reporter that director James Cameron has joined the board of directors at Stability AI. Yes, the same James Cameron who once made a movie where the heroes prevent an evil AI from destroying the world.

Stable AI is the company behind the Stable Diffusion text-to-image generative AI model. That’s the tech responsible for turning words into unintentionally nightmarish images that only the bots on Twitter can enjoy.

Cameron has always been at the forefront of using the most advanced digital tech to push filmmaking forward, he said, “I’ve spent my career seeking out emerging technologies that push the very boundaries of what’s possible, all in the service of telling incredible stories,” he said. “I was at the forefront of CGI over three decades ago, and I’ve stayed on the cutting edge since. Now, the intersection of generative AI and CGI image creation is the next wave. The convergence of these two totally different engines of creation will unlock new ways for artists to tell stories in ways we could have never imagined. Stability AI is poised to lead this transformation. I’m delighted to collaborate with Sean, Prem, and the Stability AI team as they shape the future of all visual media.”

Cameron’s move has been met with a lot of derision online. Some have come up with insults as devastating as “Not even Michael Bay would’ve done that”, once again proving you cannot replace humankind’s ability for sass.

This isn’t the first time James Cameron has made the news for his connection with AI technology. He’d recently been put on blast for the subpar 4K remasters of titles such as Aliens and True Lies, remasters he’d doubled down on by accusing its critics of caring too much.

You can now enjoy the irony of having lived to see Cameron leading a company aimed at slowly destroying the world not with cool lasers but via awful content and the ridiculous amount of unnecessary carbon emissions that it requires.