Martin Scorsese

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The Art Directors Guild released a statement on Scorsese's Flux genAI endorsement.

All of this pushback gives me hope.

Hope that Scorsese - All The Films will be...complete soon?

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This is the key point from the ADG statement—and the key fact about AI in my opinion:

Generative AI is only capable of producing this type of ‘cinematic intelligence’ by ingesting large swaths of copyrighted work, likely scraped from the internet without consent, credit, compensation, or transparency.

The entire business model of this sort of AI is one of theft and enclosure of the commons.

I assume Scorsese is doing this because they're giving him a big fat check he'll put to decent use, not because he actually plans to do much "advising." That doesn't make it any better.