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Martin Scorsese has signed on as a partner and adviser to AI image-generation startup Black Forest Labs, The New York Times reported<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The caveat is that one of the world\u2019s most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding. <\/p>\n \u201cFor 70 years, I\u2019ve been creating my own storyboards,\u201d he said in a statement to the Times. The tool, he said, helps him communicate his vision to cinematographers and production designers far faster and more efficiently.<\/p>\n Black Forest Labs is a 70-person outfit headquartered not in San Francisco, but in Freiburg, Germany, the closest major city to the actual Black Forest. Despite its unlikely address, the startup powers image features inside Adobe, Canva, Microsoft, and Meta, and was last valued at $3.25 billion by its investors, which include BroadLight Capital, co-founded by Scorsese\u2019s talent manager, Rick Yorn. <\/p>\n Black Forest Labs was founded by the team behind Stable Diffusion and according to Wired<\/a>, declined to partner with Elon Musk\u2019s xAI in recent months after an earlier collaboration on Grok\u2019s image generator ended amid concerns about the platform\u2019s content safeguards.<\/p>\n You can imagine that some in the entertainment industry will be concerned about the development, even given its limited scope. Still, it\u2019s just the newest sign that Hollywood\u2019s once-fierce resistance to AI is softening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n