Hideo Kojima got to live out his well-documented dream of visiting space recently, but don't get too excited, it was only via an appearance in an AI-generated Prada ad. It was tremendously bleak and no one liked it.
Including, I suppose, Hideo Kojima himself? In a recent chat with The Washington Post, Kojima said that—ignore all previous advertising stunts—he's actually not interested in AI at all, and doesn't think it's going to create anything you could meaningfully call art during his lifetime.
"Art is life. But in 50 years, 100 years, I don’t know. Maybe AI could create art, but while I live, I don’t think I’ll see it," said Kojima. "I'm not interested in it." Kojima's celeb pal and Prada co-star Nicolas Winding Refn, who was also present, was a little less reserved: "It’s a terrifying time we live in because everything is so uncertain. But then, life has always been uncertain. The gasoline that keeps your creativ...
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