Martin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AI

马丁·斯科塞斯成为好莱坞支持人工智能的最新、也是最出人意料的声音

Martin Scorsese has signed on as a partner and adviser to AI image-generation startup Black Forest Labs, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. The caveat is that one of the world’s most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding. 据《纽约时报》周二报道，马丁·斯科塞斯（Martin Scorsese）已签约成为人工智能图像生成初创公司 Black Forest Labs 的合伙人兼顾问。需要说明的是，这位当今世界最著名的导演之一仅将该技术用于故事板制作。

“For 70 years, I’ve been creating my own storyboards,” 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. “70年来，我一直都在自己创作故事板，”他在给《纽约时报》的一份声明中表示。他说，这款工具能帮助他更快速、更高效地向摄影师和美术指导传达他的构想。

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’s talent manager, Rick Yorn. Black Forest Labs 是一家拥有 70 名员工的公司，其总部不在旧金山，而是在德国弗赖堡（Freiburg）——距离真正的黑森林最近的主要城市。尽管地理位置出人意料，但这家初创公司为 Adobe、Canva、微软和 Meta 的图像功能提供了技术支持。其最近一次估值为 32.5 亿美元，投资者包括由斯科塞斯的经纪人里克·约恩（Rick Yorn）共同创立的 BroadLight Capital。

Black Forest Labs was founded by the team behind Stable Diffusion and according to Wired, declined to partner with Elon Musk’s xAI in recent months after an earlier collaboration on Grok’s image generator ended amid concerns about the platform’s content safeguards. Black Forest Labs 由 Stable Diffusion 背后的团队创立。据《连线》（Wired）杂志报道，在与 Grok 图像生成器的早期合作因对平台内容安全保障的担忧而终止后，该公司近几个月拒绝了与埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）旗下 xAI 的合作。

You can imagine that some in the entertainment industry will be concerned about the development, even given its limited scope. Still, it’s just the newest sign that Hollywood’s once-fierce resistance to AI is softening. 可以想象，即使应用范围有限，娱乐界的一些人仍会对这一进展感到担忧。不过，这只是好莱坞曾经对人工智能的激烈抵制正在软化的最新迹象。