{"id":618902,"date":"2026-06-03T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618902\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:59:09","slug":"martin-scorsese-gets-backlash-after-endorsing-creatively-freeing-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618902\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Scorsese gets backlash after endorsing ‘creatively freeing’ AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

But his enthusiasm was controversial among some fans and members of the film industry.<\/p>\n

Karla Ortiz, who worked in the art department on films including Avengers: Endgame, Black Panther and Doctor Strange, wrote on X, external<\/a>: “He throws every single storyboard artist he’s ever worked with under the bus, as he demolishes their livelihoods with models that are likely trained on those storyboard artist’s same works.<\/p>\n

“To use his legacy and power for this is just so disgusting.”<\/p>\n

Animation director Samuel Deats said:, external<\/a> “It takes literally seconds for me to storyboard a shot, there is absolutely no reason to need AI built on the stolen work of millions of artists to storyboard your vision, have some damn pride and respect your peers.”<\/p>\n

Others on social media defended Scorsese and the use of AI in film.<\/p>\n

“Using AI is effectively just another special effect like CGI. And as shown, Scorsese is not adverse to such technological advancements,” wrote one user.<\/p>\n

“If AI can help someone like Scorsese show his cinematographer or production team what he’s imagining more quickly, I don’t really see the issue,” said another.<\/p>\n

“At that point, it feels less like replacing creativity and more like giving the creative process a better tool.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But his enthusiasm was controversial among some fans and members of the film industry. Karla Ortiz, who worked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-618902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}