‘Wildwood’ Director Travis Knight on AI: ‘An Amazing Piece of Technology’ But ‘I’m Not Embracing It at All’
2 sources·Updated October 22, 2026
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- Deadline Hollywood·5h ago‘Wildwood’ Director Hopes People “See The Danger” In GenAI, Calls It “Antithetical” To Laika’s Work
As Laika debuts its latest stop-motion animation, Travis Knight is standing firmly against generative AI. The Wildwood director and Laika CEO explained that GenAI “is antithetical to everything that we are at this studio,” also emphasizing that he hopes people “see the danger”…
Read at Deadline Hollywood → - Variety·5h ago‘Wildwood’ Director Travis Knight on AI: ‘An Amazing Piece of Technology’ But ‘I’m Not Embracing It at All’
“Wildwood” director Travis Knight is weighing in on Hollywood’s use of AI. “I’m not embracing it at all,” Knight told me Wednesday night at AFI Fest’s opening night U.S. premiere of “Wildwood.” “I see technology as a tool, and we use technology at Laika. A pencil is technology,…
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