Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’

Wildwood is Laika’s most ambitious stop-motion film yet, taking five years and involving over 1,000 artists, 230 puppets, and 49 animators. In an interview with The Verge ahead of the film’s October 23rd premiere, director and Laika CEO Travis Knight said generative AI is “antithetical to everything that we are at this studio.” He distinguished between traditional tools like pencils and computers, which gain meaning in an artist’s hands, and generative AI, which he called theft because it lacks humanity, soul, and spirit. Knight acknowledged AI’s potential benefits in medicine and science but warned of its dangers and urged responsible stewardship.

(Source：The Verge)