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  1. I just watched this video which, to me, makes complete sense as to what the Backrooms does: Creates uncanny valley simulacra of our lives.

    I've never read the philosopher (a major source for ideas of The Matrix series), but this brief essay makes a good argument:

    youtu.be/GAHfhMcHOAs

    When did Clark (Mary? Phil?) forget their original lives before Backrooms?

    #Backrooms #horror #movie #movies #film #cinema #supernatural #SciFi #ScienceFiction #liminal #simulation #simulacra #UncannyValley

  2. I just watched this video which, to me, makes complete sense as to what the Backrooms does: Creates uncanny valley simulacra of our lives.

    I've never read the philosopher (a major source for ideas of The Matrix series), but this brief essay makes a good argument:

    youtu.be/GAHfhMcHOAs

    When did Clark (Mary? Phil?) forget their original lives before Backrooms?

    #Backrooms #horror #movie #movies #film #cinema #supernatural #SciFi #ScienceFiction #liminal #simulation #simulacra #UncannyValley

  3. Developers of a realistic animation technique for macaques found that 8 macaques were as attentive to the animations as to real monkeys, but tweaking the animation's appearance engendered a U-shaped response--i.e., an uncanny valley like that which people perceive when something is realistic but a little 'off'.

    Summary: iflscience.com/monkeys-are-cre

    Original paper: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

    #Science #AnimalBehavior #UncannyValley #Monkeys

  4. Developers of a realistic animation technique for macaques found that 8 macaques were as attentive to the animations as to real monkeys, but tweaking the animation's appearance engendered a U-shaped response--i.e., an uncanny valley like that which people perceive when something is realistic but a little 'off'.

    Summary: iflscience.com/monkeys-are-cre

    Original paper: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

    #Science #AnimalBehavior #UncannyValley #Monkeys

  5. Creating lifelike #monkey avatars is challenging. This study presents MacAction, which animates a realistic macaque body #avatar from multi-camera markerless tracking data, revealing an #UncannyValley effect in macaque body perception @PLOSBiology plos.io/4yjivUB

  6. Creating lifelike #monkey avatars is challenging. This study presents MacAction, which animates a realistic macaque body #avatar from multi-camera markerless tracking data, revealing an #UncannyValley effect in macaque body perception @PLOSBiology plos.io/4yjivUB

  7. People are so immersed in digital delusions that they no longer see the #uncannyvalley or even prefer it.

  8. 日本電視台用生成 AI 製作動畫 效果備受批評網民直指「見到就想嘔」
    日本電視台近期在多個節目中大量引入生成 AI 製作動畫內容,結果適得其反,在 X(前身為 Twitter)上引發大規模批評,視聽者直指 AI 動畫畫面令人不適,要求停播。
    #人工智能 #AI動畫 #Uncanny Valley #日本電視
    unwire.hk/2026/05/30/japan-tv-

  9. What I want to say is old internet images like this, usually memes, especially from 2000s, and 2020s AI-generated images, usually fall into the uncanny valley, where things look almost real but slightly off, making the viewer question the authenticity.

    #wheredidthiscomefrom #wheredidthisimagecomefrom #oldinternet #internetcore #webcore #oldweb #oldinternetvibes #webcorevibes #2000s #00s #2000sinternet #00sinternet #photoshopped #notai #notaigenerated #ai #aigenerated #uncanny #uncannyvalley

  10. Hitler's bunker liberated, from the depths emerge rows of sedated blonde women clones, flawed attempts to create Aryan versions of the Barry Sisters. they wander the streets terrifying people with their uncanny, swaying bizarro attempts at Jewish music
    youtube.com/@ShalomKlezmer

    #AIslop #UncannyValley #klezmer

  11. Hitler's bunker liberated, from the depths emerge rows of sedated blonde women clones, flawed attempts to create Aryan versions of the Barry Sisters. they wander the streets terrifying people with their uncanny, swaying bizarro attempts at Jewish music
    youtube.com/@ShalomKlezmer

    #AIslop #UncannyValley #klezmer

  12. This one is definitely giving me the creeps 😖. Found this at Parque Europa today and I can't shake the feeling it's watching me.

    #uncanny #uncannyvalley

  13. This Ryan George video gave me insight about predictable insane useless slop so called generated videos are used for. Also content warning, not for faint stomach, altho Ryan tries to do comedy with this youtu.be/znSXgQi61hc?is=xPlM5L in nutshell it was, is and will be useless bullshit which will cease to exist moment money will move away from genAI #AIslop #humor #uncannyvalley

  14. This Ryan George video gave me insight about predictable insane useless slop so called generated videos are used for. Also content warning, not for faint stomach, altho Ryan tries to do comedy with this youtu.be/znSXgQi61hc?is=xPlM5L in nutshell it was, is and will be useless bullshit which will cease to exist moment money will move away from genAI #AIslop #humor #uncannyvalley

  15. “Why would anyone want to spend any longer than they had to in the corridors of a pulsing, feel-bad #uncannyvalley? Sora’s were the halls of pure #slop, and not even #AI #CEOs themselves can stomach that slop.” #Sora open.substack.com/pub/bloodint...

    AI's aesthetics of failure