---
title: "Iconic CGI Artist Says Soon There’ll Be a Totally AI-Generated Movie"
description: "Steve Williams, VFX bigwig, predicts a 100 percent AI movie will be released to the public, who won't suspect it's completely fake."
date: "2023-09-02"
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  - name: "Sharon Adarlo"
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# Iconic CGI Artist Says Soon There’ll Be a Totally AI-Generated Movie

![Steve Williams, VFX bigwig, predicts a 100 percent AI movie will be released to the public, who won't suspect it's completely fake.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/cgi-totally-ai-generated-movie.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Marvel\</em\>*

## Deep Fake

With actors and writers on strike and protesting against [artificial intelligence as an existential threat to their livelihoods](<https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/aug/21/ai-jobs-hollywood-writers-actors-strike>), 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*](<https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/29/hollywood-ai-actors-trick-dont-exist-expert-prediction-19412073/>)*.*

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](<https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/>) 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’s freaking out — they didn’t 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](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/spy-deepfake-photo-infiltrate-linkedin-networks>).

"That’s why I referred to it in my early interviews in the early ‘90s and said you’re 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’ 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 faces. So he knows what he's talking about.

Other Hollywood people, [like director Joe Russo](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/marvel-director-full-ai-movie-two-years>), have said that there will be AI-generated movies in the future and viewers can plug in their own avatars alongside, say, Marilyn Monroe, in a movie that is generated from just prompts. Kind of like Dall-E on steroids.

But there are some hurdles with all these scenarios: real-life actors and writers protesting having their appearance and stories [owned by corporations without getting compensated](<https://variety.com/vip/union-contract-just-first-step-toward-actor-protections-ai-1235686218/>), [the amount of energy and water](<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/08/artificial-intelligence-industry-boom-environment-toll>) it takes to generate AI content, and the fact that AI still has [trouble with hands](<https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-uncanny-failures-of-ai-generated-hands>)!

However it all shakes out, the future is going to be weird.

**More on AI movies:** [*Marvel Director Expects Fully AI-Generated Movies Within Two Years*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/marvel-director-full-ai-movie-two-years>)