Legendary Director, 83, Sparks New Cinema Controversy

Martin Scorsese has found himself in hot water with his Hollywood colleagues after endorsing the use of artificial intelligence in filmmaking.

The Oscar-winning director, 83, sparked a firestorm in the filmmaking world last week for appearing in an ad for the AI startup Black Forest Labs—where he is an adviser.

In the promotional video, Scorsese uses the company’s text-to-image AI engine to create a storyboard featuring a medieval street and then declares that the technology “conveys a cinematic—a cinematic intelligence.”

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