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Martin Scorsese Feels the Power of the Dark Side, Jumps on the AI Bandwagon
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Martin Scorsese Feels the Power of the Dark Side, Jumps on the AI Bandwagon

Gizmodo·AJ Dellinger·14 days ago
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What’s the opposite of Absolute Cinema? According to the New York Times, Martin Scorsese has accepted a role as an advisor for a generative AI firm and, even more devastatingly, has apparently started to use the technology during the storyboarding process for his next film. The company in question is Black Forest Labs, the maker of text-to-image and video models, including Flux, which has been used for image and video generation by companies including Adobe, VSCO, and xAI . And if you’re wondering how Marty ended up involved with them, well, you can probably blame his agents—though you don’t have to give the director a total pardon. Per the Times , Scorsese’s talent manager, Rick Yorn, is the co-founder of BroadLight Capital, one of the firms that has invested in Black Forest Films. Michael Ovitz, the founder of Creative Artists Agency and a former neighbor of Scorsese , is also an investor and probably had Marty’s ear on the whole project.…

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