Martin Scorsese quietly joined an AI company, feeds it his storyboards, and calls it a tool. The directors who would know best keep handing over the keys. Scorsese signed on as an advisor to Black Forest Labs (makers of the Flux models), while Guillermo del Toro says he would rather die than use generative AI, and James Cameron, Peter Jackson, Darren Aronofsky, and Ben Affleck all crossed to the other side. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop trace the money and the craft from AI storyboards and pre-visualization to the first fully AI-generated film at Tribeca, then fight about whether AI art is real art, what Duchamp's urinal actually proves, and why Quentin Tarantino can remix other directors without anyone calling it theft.

Toy Story Was the First. Now Nobody Checks If AI Made It.

They Might Be Self-Aware is a twice-weekly AI podcast about the week's news, tech, and culture, and the question in its name: are the machines becoming self-aware?

Every episode starts with a real story. A new Claude or ChatGPT release, an AI lawsuit, the Pope's verdict on machine souls, Martin Scorsese making films with AI. Then it chases that story somewhere stranger, funnier, and more human than the headline. This is AI as a culture story, not a tech beat: the relief of finally hearing people who are as deep in it as you are.

Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop host. Two guys who actually build with this stuff, arguing about it fast, funny, and unfiltered, not reading you benchmarks or "10 prompts to save you time." Gary produces, phoning in the cold open from a payphone. He has no last name, and a backstory no one on staff has managed to verify. One of the hosts might not be human. We won't say which.

New episodes Mondays and Thursdays, from The Blur. theblur.ai