In one of the stranger stories of the day, Hideo Kojima has come under fire for participating in a brand deal with Prada's private club Mode, which is hosting an upcoming event dubbed "Satellites II."
For the event, Prada enlisted Kojima and Danish film director Nicolas Winding Refn to star in an AI-generated short film that features the pair engaging in science-fiction hijinks before arriving at the Chelsea Hotel, where the Mode event is taking place.
"Throughout our extended friendship, Hideo Kojima and I have shared the feeling that we were somehow split from the same consciousness, moving through different lives while orbiting the same obsessions. That idea became the spark for a film: a space odyssey following us as we traverse a sci-fi dreamscape," said Winding Refn. "Created in collaboration with Prada, the project is both an artistic experiment and a playful exploration of new creative possibilities through AI technology."
As you can imagine, the AI-averse gaming community didn't take too kindly to one of their auteurs participating in an AI-generated film, as generative artificial intelligence is seen by many as the antithesis of creativity, a trait Kojima is often lauded for.
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