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Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/business/media/martin-scorsese-artificial-intelligence.html
36•stephen37•1h ago

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stephen37•1h ago
Martin Scorsese is backing Black Forest Labs, the company famous for FLUX models.
trollbridge•1h ago
Not to be confused with the other Flux that is currently having a legal dispute with Adafruit.
basisword•50m ago
Easy to do when you're 83 and won't be around to suffer the consequences.
alex_suzuki•42m ago
To me this feels like being edgy on purpose… “Look everybody, I’m still relevant!”
maplethorpe•48m ago
Scorcese understands that Hollywood's ultimate limiting factor is the number of available actors. A finite pool of actors means a finite pool of movies. Removing this limitation means that, just like an AI image generator can generate any image imaginable, a future movie generator will be able to generate every movie imaginable, at the click of a button.
sdevonoes•42m ago
Wouldn’t that devalue movies, though? For the consumer is great, but for the people in the industry… I guess it doesn’t sound that great?
coinfused•42m ago
Why would anyone want that? I don't want infinite movies, I don't have infinite time. I'd rather have intent over quantity. There is already an abundance of content, a century of cinema. Who actually wants this and why?
righthand•41m ago
There is not a shortage of actors.
mlinhares•40m ago
So much so people do anything to try to become an actor, the ones that make i are an incredibly small fraction of the actual pool. Worse, most of those you see on the screen are also not rich or making bank, sometimes they're just paying the bills.
kakacik•19m ago
One has to come to LA (ideally live there a bit) to see with their own eyes the amount of people trying to break through in movie industry.

Armies of wanna-be actors and actresses, but also ie screenwriters. We only see publicly the result of many consecutive layers of filters/funnels.

CuriouslyC•13m ago
It's an old running joke that most waiters/baristas/etc in LA are aspiring actors. It's part of the reason that service workers in LA are so uncommonly hot on average.
josefritzishere•47m ago
gross
olivierestsage•46m ago
I've noticed a tendency among people who have built careers known for visionary, forward-thinking work that they hesitate to make the natural move into more "conservative" positions/approaches as they age. This leads to missteps, because as one ages, one inevitably becomes further removed from the zeitgeist. On paper, embracing AI might seem like a great idea if you don't want to become an old fogey, but not all changes are positive and I doubt this decision will age well
msabalau•29m ago
Given that, according to the article, he's just using it for storyboarding, in attempt to better communicate a vision to a range of human contributors, it's really unclear how this decision will "age badly." either this is a stronger way to create storyboards or it isn't.

Presumably he has the experience to evaluate if this is likely to actually help or not. Or at least if it is worth exploring.

It is rather unclear why you believe he is likely wrong, aside from conjuring up rather ageist speculations about his motives.

nonethewiser•26m ago
>On paper, embracing AI might seem like a great idea if you don't want to become an old fogey, but not all changes are positive and I doubt this decision will age well

I imagine the whole industry is going to use more and more AI. There may be some hiccups on the forefront but I definitely dont think it will be some direction that gets abandoned.

CuriouslyC•17m ago
AI is just the next step in VFX. Game studios are leaning into it heavily for asset generation as well. These assets are still hand touched for style and composed by humans, but a lot of this work was previously done by outsourced workers/art grunts/asset packs so it's not really a quality loss.
Frieren•39m ago
A.I. like in generating crowds, simulating physics, improving effects... or Large Language Models and Image Generation?

AI means a lot of different things, I wish I could read the article.

john_strinlai•28m ago
generative ai for story-boarding.

(i typically find nytimes works if you disable scripts)

elpocko•38m ago
Awesome! The old man has better vision than most young filmmakers.

The title is missing a period at the end; the embarassing HN title mutilator strikes again, I guess. You should use an LLM for that, it's much better suited to the task.

num42•37m ago
Martin Scorsese x Black Forest Labs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4jl4htAcuM

thr0waway001•28m ago
This is a recession indicator.
brettermeier•21m ago
Giftet Link from Reddit: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/business/media/martin-sco...

(Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1tur7ku/comment/opb...)

firefoxd•18m ago
That's right. All their computers will have grammarly installed by default now. /jk

Ai is too broad a term even when it comes to movies. Which part of the pipeline will include an AI tool? Or are we saying he is going to prompt Seedance to generate an entire movie?

john_strinlai•12m ago
he specifically mentions generative ai for storyboarding in the article

Mr. Scorsese declined an interview request. But it was clear that his A.I. endorsement had limits. His statement and accompanying video were entirely related to storyboarding, which is the process of visually mapping out a film before cameras roll.

hdndjsbbs•3m ago
TFA says he's using it for storyboarding. This doesn't seem like a huge deal, but film is a visual medium! The closer your pre-viz and storyboarding looks to reality, the more you're going to tend to stick to it when you're actually filming.

You want your rough drafts to have a roughness that conveys your level of confidence. If your AI first draft looks polished people may feel more pressure not to deviate.

I find these hand-drawn Taxi Drivers storyboards very charming even though they obviously don't map cleanly to shots in the film. This is what you're giving up if you just tell an AI "give me a close up of Travis Bickle's face"

https://boords.com/blog/martin-scorseses-hand-drawn-taxi-dri...

hackyhacky•41m ago
Instead of using AI actors, couldn't we address Hollywood's actor shortage some other way?

For example, we could tap the federal Strategic Actor Reserve, or import actors from actor-rich countries such as France and Belgium.

sleepydog•32m ago
We could invade other countries and take their actors. We could reinstate the actor's draft or do mandatory 1-2 years actor's service like some other countries do
bazoom42•4m ago
There is no actor shortage.
hackyhacky•2m ago
There is, however, a large shortage of sense of humor.
jmuguy•39m ago
I don't anyone living in LA would claim there's a shortage of actors.
nonethewiser•25m ago
There is a huge surplus of actors.
tracerbulletx•25m ago
I HIGHLY doubt that's his POV. Almost all directors, and he has said this himself many times, think of actors as collaborators and their performances as an essential part of the movie.
msabalau•22m ago
What does this random sentiment have to do with the article, which is about him using a particular tool for storyboarding, which is a process of communicating a vision to a range of human contributors?

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