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#uncannyvalley — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #uncannyvalley, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Parasocial

    "Parasocial" is the Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2025, defined as: involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, etc., or an artificial intelligence I was somewhat familiar. I didn't clock a big uptick in the usage in the typical discourse. Of course, I have talked quite a bit about the problems of people falling into parasocial dynamics with AI. Photo by Lucas […]

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  2. 300k years of #HomoSapiens and not a single civilization?

    How about this piece of #alternativeHistory #microfiction

    The phenomenon of #UncannyValley is our ancestor's defense against #AI, that destroyed our first, long forgotten civilization, back during the #Toba catastrophe populational bottleneck, when humanity got reduced down to 1000 ppl. We had a great digital civilization based on plant-derived conductive polymers instead of silicon. The Thousand who survived the Raise of the Machines have won only because they all shared an instinct to recognize the #AISlop at first glance just like we can easily recognize a snake on the ground. The reaction of disgust is why they won after a long and bloody war. Their heritage is in our veins now. It's our turn.