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Title: DreamWorks Co-Founder Katzenberg Likens AI To CGI Revolution

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/04/2128246/d...

At the Axios AI+ Summit, DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg compared
the rise of AI in entertainment to the CGI revolution of the 1990s,
emphasizing that those who adapt to the technology will thrive. He argued AI
won't replace people -- but will replace those who don't embrace it. Axios
reports: Katzenberg, a co-founder of DreamWorks and one-time Disney executive
whose work includes films like "Shrek," reflected on the "huge" resistance to
making "Toy Story" with the then-novel CGI technology. The people most afraid
were the ones who would be disrupted, he said. "Everything that you are
hearing today are the issues that we had to deal with," he said. Katzenberg
continued, "Yes, there was disruption, but animation's never, ever been
bigger than it is today." The bottom line: "AI isn't going to replace people,
it's going to replace people that don't use AI," he said. "The exact same
analogy there ... is that the talent that went and learned how to use the
computer as a new pencil and a new paint brush ... they thrived," he said.
Katzenberg added, "if change is uncomfortable, irrelevance is going to be a
whole lot harder."

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