It’s funny how recognizing AI art nowadays is just the same old rules as recognizing the fae in old tales.
“Count the fingers, count the knuckles, count the teeth, check the shadows…”
… and under NO circumstances should you make deals with their kind.
@erkhyan this makes really clear the relationship between recognizing one of The Good People and the uncanny valley; never thought about it before but it makes a lot of sense.
And it brings back the question of why we evolved with this instinctive response for recognizing something not quite human.
@UnrealRonen @erkhyan Because some of them are capitalized Evil. We call it by many names because the ones who are good at it can act from different mental syndromes: psychopathology, narcissistic, etc.
And yet not all of them, of any syndrome, necessarily trigger my alarms.
By the time their eyes and face form into the Mask of Sanity (name of an early work on the subject) I get a very_bad vibe. These are the hard-core selfish who resist engaging with their own humanity, and refuse to acknowledge anyone else's.
My first big corporate job I nonetheless made waves. Because there was a salesman in the organization who kept hanging out in the lobby at the times it was my turn to sub for lunch at the receptionist desk.
I asked management to tell him not to do that anymore because his vibe drove me crazy. He just sat there and did paperwork but I was very uncomfortable. Fortunately he was told not to do this, and stopped. He subsequently left the company.
About two years later he was arrested and convicted for kidnapping and rape. So I do listen to my feelings. That was a good lesson in knowing what I felt, and acting on it.
It's especially crucial since we have a whole western society built on: "The emperor does too have clothes!"
@UnrealRonen @erkhyan Human descent is a braided tangle of various hominin clades.
If we hadn't had the uncanny valley "like us?" filter from a long way back, we wouldn't have that evolutionary history. Speciation events would have been much sharper.