September 25, 2026
Entertainment

Nolte: Former Disney Animation Chief Jeffrey Katzenberg Champions AI

Reaching all the way back to the 1980s, Jeffrey Katzenberg was a giant in the world of feature animation movies for more than 30 years. His biography is like no one other than Walt Disney and includes such timeless classics as Who Framed Roger Rabbit,…

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Reaching all the way back to the 1980s, Jeffrey Katzenberg was a giant in the world of feature animation movies for more than 30 years. His biography is like no one other than Walt Disney and includes such timeless classics as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Lion King, and the Shrek and Kung Fu Panda franchises. And…

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This week he took to his verified X account to make a 2,500+ word argument in favor of using AI in animation.

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While Katzenberg sympathizes with those who might lose their jobs to AI, he doesn’t hide the fact that job losses is what all the hysterical fear-mongering around AI is really about.

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He points out how John Philip Sousa opposed the gramophone as a “substitute for human skill, intelligence, and soul.” Ah, but once Sousa’s copyrights were secured and he got paid for that mechanical music, all the complaints went away.

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Thousands of musicians all over the country were gainfully employed for nearly two decades bringing music to silent films. That’s why those musicians opposed sound movies. Naturally, they didn’t admit that. Instead, they attacked this amazing advancement on the…

Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/

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