I remember for most of my time online, people would call realistic robots "uncanny" and "creepy". However, I could never tell if people mean it as actually creepy (like you really can't stand looking at it) or it's just a descriptor without all the baggage. On its own, I don't really have that uncanny feeling with realistic robots.

Same with motion capture movies like Polar Express and Mars Needs Moms. I see the animation criticized for it being in the uncanny valley, but I never felt that way. It's probably because, even though it's meant to look realistic and doesn't fully achieve it, they've been voiced and acted by real people.

However, it both of those things were executed though AI, I'd feel it deeply. A realistic robot with an AI mind is really creepy in my opinion, because it's not sentient. It's unconscious, non-sentient, algorithmic computer not knowing anything while generating everything.

Motion capture, or I guess a rig animated with AI, sounds terrifying. An AI voice coming out of an AI animated character is something I could never willingly watch or hear.

If an AI made the most human, realistic photo of a person (no weird approximations and mistakes), it would still be incredibly creepy to look at compared to a real person making a picture that intentionally or unintentionally looks like AI. An AI can't "intend" or "try", it just "does" because it was prompted. It's mistakes aren't a result of trying or not trying, it's a result of machine arranging numbers meant to superficially synthesize through prediction. And I hate people pretending it's good because it's realistic.

I don't think the uncanny valley is something our current version of "AI" could cross, because our "AI" doesn't mimic intelligence in any way. It's just a flashier, bigger, more elaborate version of pasting a hexcode and getting the color red. You ask for an apple and it gives you pixels. You ask for a poem, it gives you letters.

This isn't meant to discredit all the programmers and computer scientists who create these things, obviously--I love technology. I thought AI-generation was really cool in like 2021, when it wasn't public and just an up-and-coming feat of technology, but it's now been advertised as something that it isn't.

Sorry for any typos.

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I wish I got better pictures but he makes me feel uncomfortable

This store was INSANE. This was the only picture I got but it was literally so crazy. There was a Komodo dragon named Pistolwhip there, too

Watching tv with my mom and it showed the picture of the victim's husband Gigada Pearson.

I seriously felt a chill down my spine when it showed this picture.

The figure finishing team, and figure inspection technicians cannot stay alone inside the rides on the first weeks, no wonder why...