Dana Terrace
Animator
Peabody Award-winning animator and creator of Disney Channel’s The Owl House who became one of animation’s most outspoken opponents of generative AI. In 2025 she urged fans to cancel Disney+ and pirate her own show in protest of the studio’s embrace of AI-generated content.
In their words
Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.
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Biography
Dana Terrace (born 1990) is an American animator, writer, and director best known for creating Disney Channel’s The Owl House, which won a Peabody Award in 2021, and for storyboarding Gravity Falls and directing episodes of the DuckTales reboot. She built a reputation as a fiercely independent creative voice, pushing for LGBTQ+ representation even against studio resistance. In 2025 she became one of animation’s most vocal opponents of generative AI, calling on fans to cancel Disney+ and pirate her own series in protest of the studio’s adoption of AI-generated content.
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Where they stand in the war
Who opposes them
Andrea Iervolino
Film Producer
Italian-Canadian producer behind dozens of features and one of the film industry’s most outspoken AI advocates. He produced what he calls the first feature directed by an AI — a synthetic “director” named FellinAI — while insisting it complements rather than replaces traditional cinema.
Darren Aronofsky
Director
Academy Award-nominated director of Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, and The Whale, and one of the highest-profile filmmakers building AI into the craft. He founded the AI-focused studio Primordial Soup and partnered with Google DeepMind to develop AI-assisted projects.
David Lynch
Director
The surrealist auteur behind Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, and Mulholland Drive, whose dreamlike style gave us the word “Lynchian.” In one of his final interviews, months before his death in January 2025, he called AI “fantastic” and “incredible as a tool for creativity.”
Gareth Edwards
Director
British director of Rogue One, Godzilla, and The Creator who built his career making blockbuster-scale films with tiny crews and lean budgets. A visual-effects artist by training, he sees AI as a tool that could rank alongside the camera — and outdo CGI.
James Cameron
Director
Director of The Terminator, Aliens, Titanic, and Avatar, and one of cinema’s great technological pioneers. In 2024 he joined the board of Stability AI, calling the convergence of generative AI and CGI “the next wave” — while arguing it should speed up and empower artists, not replace them.
Martin Scorsese
Director
One of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, and a lifelong champion of film preservation. In 2026 he became an advisor to Black Forest Labs and spoke openly about using AI-generated storyboards in pre-production — framing AI as another tool for communicating a director’s vision, not a replacement for artists.
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