James Cameronis reflecting on a famous project he made nearly 40 years ago that he believes was a warning for what’s happening today.
During the conversation, Cameron referenced his 1984 filmThe Terminator, which starredArnold Schwarzeneggeras a cyborg assassin.
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In a press conferenceannouncing the union’s intention to strikeagainst the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers), SAG-AFTRA’s national executive director and chief negotiator, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, said in part: “This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able touse it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no consent and no compensation.”
In a statement aheadof the union’s decision, the AMPTP said their offer to SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) included “a groundbreaking AI proposal that protects actors' digital likenesses.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger inThe Terminator(1984).Orion/Kobal/Shutterstock
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Schwarzenegger, 75, recently spoke about Cameron, praising him for predicting the future of artificial intelligence in theTerminatorfilms that Schwarzenegger said has now “become a reality.”
“Today, everyone is frightened of it, of where this is gonna go," the actor said of current concerns around AI, duringAn Evening with Arnold Schwarzeneggerin Los Angeles last month. “And in this movie, inTerminator,we talk about the machines becoming self-aware and they take over.”
Schwarzenegger celebrated the “brilliance of writing” in Cameron’s sci-fi film, given that “at that time we [had] scratched the surface of AI, artificial intelligence. Think about that.”
“Now over the course of decades,it has become a reality. So it’s not any more fantasy or kind of futuristic. It is here today. And so this is the extraordinary writing of Jim Cameron,” Schwarzenegger added.
source: people.com
