- Film director Martin Scorsese agreed to be an advisor to AI company Black Forest Labs.
- Scorsese explains how he uses AI to storyboard films and help others visualize his ideas.
- Hollywood is split over the use of AI but its use appears to be growing in filmmaking.
Martin Scorsese just shook up Hollywood. Not with his latest film but with embracing of the use of AI as a tool.
He’s even joined the German AI company Black Forest Labs as an advisor.
In the video below, he explains how he uses AI to storyboard films and to help others visualize his ideas for movies. To be clear, he’s not using AI in the actual filming — only in the storyboarding, pre-filming process.
Now, with this tool, I can share what I’m visualizing more clearly and efficiently to my creative team—the production designer, art designer, and cinematographer.
MARTIN SCORSESE
He explained to the New York Times: ““I recently tested this out on a scene, and the ability to visualize and immediately share the storyboard was creatively freeing. During the preproduction process, time costs money, and this allowed us to move faster without sacrificing quality or craft.”
Scorsese is a legendary filmmaker. His announcement no doubt will roil opponents of AI. Hollywood remains deeply divided. But others suggest that there’s at least an increasing “cautious acceptance” of some uses of AI. Film festivals, including Canne (“Hell Grind”) and Tribeca (“Dream of Violets”), are including an AI-generated movie in this year’s program.
More from the interview with Scorsese here.
Scorsese is the second prominent creator recently to announce embracing the use of AI as a tool in a preliminary phase of brainstorming ideas. The Nobel laureate novelist Olga Tokarczuk discussed how she used AI to research her forthcoming novel, but not for any writing of words.
Both Scorsese and Tokcarzuk faced criticisms from others, who strongly disagree with any use of AI in any creative endeavor.
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