Boots Riley Thinks Martin Scorsese “Doesn’t Give A F*ck” About AI But Was Offered “A Gang Of Money”
Boots Riley Thinks Martin Scorsese “Doesn’t Give A F*ck” About AI But Was Offered “A Gang Of Money”
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Publish Date: 2026-06-03 21:07:00
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As Martin Scorsese embraces artificial intelligence (AI) in Hollywood, his filmmaking peers are reacting to the Oscar winner’s new role.
Boots Riley recently criticized Scorsese for his “attempt to push the industry toward” genAI with his advisor position at AI firm Black Forest Labs, suggesting he only joined the company for the money.
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“My guess: at 83, they gave his family a gang of money (they throw tens of millions left and right) he wanted the income stream [for] them and feels like ‘AI’ will fall on its face anyway, so he doesn’t give a fuck,” he wrote on X. “If that’s not the case, extra fuck him. Separately, go see I Love Boosters today.”
The I Love Boosters writer/director sarcastically added in another post, “Like- yeah the problem with filmmaking is ‘we didn’t have the tools to be creative before this.’”
“To be clear, my vitriol is not about him using it, I’d likely simply sneer at that in private. It’s about him using his cache [to] promote this and attempt to push the industry toward it. They need him. One Trillion spent on generative AI and it’s not saving anyone or changing film yet,” said Riley.
Riley even shared some of his “TERRIBLY DRAWN storyboards” for I Love Boosters, now in theaters, explaining why Black Forest Labs’ Flux tool for creating storyboards is unnecessary.
“Later- we did have an amazing artist re-do them, but planned through most of prep using these. It worked,” he wrote. “You don’t have to use AI to do this shit.”
On Tuesday, Black Forest Labs announced Scorsese’s new role as an advisor, helping shape the company’s “visual intelligence.”
“For 70 years, I’ve been creating my own storyboards,” he said in a statement. “There’s always been this problem of how do you communicate what you see in your head to your cast and crew. There are some things you have to see and feel. I’m interested in the intersection of technology and storytelling, and…
