Overview
- Black Forest Labs announced Scorsese as an adviser on June 2 and published video of him using its FLUX generative‑AI tool to create storyboards for preproduction work.
- The Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800, issued a public rebuke Tuesday that accused Scorsese of "turning his back on" human artists and of promoting a tool that would do work under the guild’s jurisdiction.
- The guild argued FLUX produces what it called “cinematic intelligence” only by ingesting large amounts of copyrighted artwork, likely scraped without consent, credit, or compensation.
- Scorsese has defended the collaboration as a preproduction visualization tool that helps him show his vision to designers and cinematographers and said he tested the system and found it sped work without sacrificing craft.
- The dispute has not produced a substantive public reply from Scorsese’s camp and highlights larger industry fights over job protections, contract language on AI and possible changes in how films are planned and staffed.