Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I.
The New York Times marks the moment Hollywood's AI resistance visibly cracked: Martin Scorsese — 16 Academy Award nominations and the industry's standing conscience on cinema-as-art — has signed on as partner and adviser to image-and-video startup Black Forest Labs, after using its tools in preproduction on a new film. His argument is that cinema is 'a young medium, only around 125 years old' and owes itself openness about how it evolves. The surrounding context does the heavy lifting: AI protections were a central demand of the 2023 strikes involving 170,000 workers, yet by June 2026 Demi Moore was calling the fight unwinnable from the Cannes jury and Tribeca had programmed a film made with no actors, no sets, and no cameras. (The link is an NYT gift link.)
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