AI Crosses Uncanny Valley, Humans Plunged into Creepiness
Machine learning researcher Naomi Saphra explores the psychological impact after AI simulation crosses the uncanny valley. She argues that as AI perfectly passes the Turing test, it doesn't eliminate the uncanny valley but spreads eeriness into daily life, causing dissociation and strangeness when reading human-created content, making the internet feel like a social deduction game.
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