Uncanny valley
A term describing the earlier phenomenon in which a synthetic face or figure that was almost, but not quite, realistic produced a distinct sense of unease or wrongness in viewers, making it identifiable as artificial even without conscious analysis. Current image generation tools are widely described, including by the researchers cited in Section 3C, as having moved past this effect for still photographs of faces, producing results that read as ordinary and unremarkable rather than uncanny.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 2 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Senior AI Scam Defense.
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The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A term describing the earlier phenomenon in which a synthetic face or figure that was almost, but not quite, realistic produced a distinct sense of unease or wrongness in viewers, making it identifiable as artificial even without conscious analysis. Current image generation tools are widely described, including by the researchers cited in Section 3C, as having moved past this effect for still photographs of faces, producing results that read as ordinary and unremarkable rather than uncanny.
A phenomenon described by Masahiro Mori in 1970, in which a robot's emotional acceptability rises with increasing human-likeness up to a point, then drops sharply into discomfort or revulsion as likeness becomes near-human but imperfect, before recovering at true human indistinguishability.
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- A face that never existed, generated while you watch · The Demystification Lab, Senior AI Scam Defense
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