Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I

Martin Scorsese — yes, that Scorsese, patron saint of Serious Cinema — has publicly backed Black Forest Labs, a company that makes image-generating A.I. tools, and the internet reaction was basically: cue the screaming. The legendary director says he used the company’s technology while preparing a new movie and framed it as part of cinema’s evolution. But online, people weren’t exactly tossing confetti.

The strongest reaction was straight-up disgust. One commenter summed up the anti-A.I. camp with a brutally efficient “gross,” while others went much harder, accusing Hollywood of cozying up to tools that could eventually sideline human artists. One especially sharp comment said it’s “easy to do when you’re 83,” a line that turned the whole debate into a generational drama: is Scorsese being visionary, or is he making a risky call he won’t personally have to live with?

Then came the truly wild hot takes. One commenter argued that the real limit on Hollywood is the finite number of actors — and imagined a future where every possible movie could be generated “at the click of a button.” That idea fascinated some readers and horrified others, which is exactly the kind of comment-section chaos the internet lives for. There was also a more philosophical pile-on: maybe aging visionaries sometimes mistake chasing the future for actually understanding it. In other words, the story isn’t just Scorsese embracing A.I. — it’s the comment section asking whether cinema just met its next tool, or its villain origin story.