Note23rd October, 2025 / technology
How much would you risk?
Guillermo del Toro discussing AI’s “semi-compelling screensavers” and how prompt-based output may never truly move us:
The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires, it’s how much would you risk to be in its presence? You know, what would you do to be in the presence of Starry Night at Musee d’Orsay? Would you go to Paris? Yes? Would you stand in line for three hours? Yes? And then you’d have five minutes in which you’ll be monumentally moved by that. You know? So how much would people pay for those screensavers? Are they going to make them cry because they lost a son, a mother, because they misspent their youth? Fuck no. It’s not going to happen.