Why Are AI Generated Videos So Terrifying?

[@farrellmcguire]

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[@bottleflaskan802]

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[@SincerestSawa]

i watched a video yesterday that i think has some insight, it was about playing minecraft on peaceful mode. He explained the difference between survival and peaceful mode , that survival runs on the horror aspect, and peaceful mode insights terror because of the anticipation of a threat, knowing your alone but yet feeling like someone is watching or following you. Seeing things out of the corner of your eye or hearing sounds that might imply someone else is nearby. all those things contribute to the feeling of terror

[@scottnovak8903]

As a recommitted and alignment to Trinity, I've experienced supernatural events, or testimonies or answered prayer's, AI describing dimensions and frequency to reaction to optics. Isn't weird tragedy and vile behaviors is the end is near, Jesus Christ is returning seeing fulfilling prophecy in Mathew 24 : 1-36 Revelation harsh reality. Amen?

[@SincerestSawa]

@@scottnovak8903 Amen

[@SCHOOLERstyle]

I create better animations on my channel than AI generated JUNK! 💪😎

[@Nuancesgotab]

I just really hate the globby playdough, slime, mold like visuals of AI videos. Seeing those motions and morphing makes me extremely uncomfortable. It’s like that fear some people have of seeing tons of tiny holes but I have it when I see anything AI that morphs things into formless volumes of clay like motions and shapes. It creeps me out, like anything it touches will turn to slime.

[@jaredurbain9705]

It's similar to gore I think.

[@badrumioli]

it has an lot of potential in horror media, putting this barely held together yet something you can recognize as an "it follows" monster can work much great.

[@higgz2036]

Couldn't have said it any better.

[@MegafanX123]

Every time I watch an AI video I feel a strong itchy sensation between my nose and cheeks, I also feel very scared and cold. Edit: At 3:31 I legit got a jumpscare

[@MegafanX123]

​@@badrumioli Even though i have those feelings (to the videos only) i really love happy meat farm (that uses AI pictures to show mutant and deformed animals), gotta check the channel now to see if there is new stuff

[@grape123]

I 100% think the uncanny valley comes from the unsettling feeling of seeing a dead body. Having seen one, it’s the same feeling but more intense.

[@_Kuma_]

That and people who are only kept alive in the most basic way (breathing via machine but brain dead) are so terrifying to me… Like… Thats a body, yes, but it isn’t a _person_ . There is no soul in there anymore. It’s like a husk of a person now. So unsettling.

[@grape123]

@@_Kuma_ Seeing a dead body for me was like seeing a mannequin but worse. The only thing I can compare it to is the uncanny valley, and I imagine seeing someone in that state for you was like that

[@anonecki]

It makes sense why dead bodies put us on edge from an evolutionary standpoint: whatever killed that person might still be around, be it a wild animal or disease

[@Alx1744]

You need to use an argument far propagates evolution and nihilism though, in-order to serve satan, so this comment will be getting removed shortly. ;))))

@@grape123 damn this is true when my neighbor died of 20 years i wen to go see him in his death bed and when he passed it was as if i couldn't feel him the same way u feel those close to you its hard to explain almost as if there is a "force " of life we can feel

[@Zychel_EX9]

The will smith spaghetti video is funny to me because it looks cartoonish, not far off from a sfm video. But luma just takes a complete dive into the uncanny valley

[@spencerdokes6056]

Tf is sfm?

[@crismairo]

@@spencerdokes6056 Source Filmmaker

[@saulgoodmandrunkdrivingclips4k]

@@spencerdokes6056sus fuckin men

[@crazylabz_ha]

​@@spencerdokes6056it's what's used to make those tf2 animations

[@SCHOOLERstyle]

I create better animations on my channel than AI generated JUNK! 💪😎

[@Peter]

Maybe I'm broken but the uncanny valley videos usually crack me the hell up. I was dying laughing at Gordon Ramsay puking videos.

[@pikminologueraisin2139]

the gordon ramsay ones are just hella funny

[@Garnsta]

Same, all AI videos that look off just make me giggle in its all absurdity

[@arsonzartz]

SAME

[@invisiblekincajou]

I'm not even sure that these videos are AI generated, because it fits character so well

[@JinxdOne]

If it were a video of your family reunion tho. You know the people, what they look like then suddenly they have 3 arms and turn their head, smiling at you. But not the whole body. Just the head, and hold a smile much longer than natural. You'd be singing a different tune..

[@MrRaxodine]

I find them genuinely unpredictable, to the point that no human could have produced them. They feel alien. They feel otherworldly. They crack me up and terrify me at the same time. Similar to how I felt when I watched Ren and Stimpy as a child, but even more so because I’m an adult now, and have a general grasp of “reality” and when I see an AI video of Gordon Ramsay unexpectedly exploding tomatoes out of his hands when he claps them together, it really makes me feel funny on the inside. Great video btw, you explored a lot of good reasons behind why it makes us feel the way we do.

[@j-money6543]

My theory is that uncanny valley is just an anxiety surrounding something that looks very familiar but at the same time exhibits entirely unfamiliar behavior. You can't predict whats gonna happen like you can with things youre very familiar with and thus triggers a fear/anxiety surrounding an unknown. Predictability is the key difference. People get the same dread with not knowing how their future is going to play out, or why spiders are so freaky to most people.

[@catbatrat1760]

I think this is also why people are so uncomfortable around people with mental illnesses or even something like autism: If you don't know what's causing the seemingly-strange behavior, then your brain goes "WHAT THE FRICK? WHAT'S GOING ON? WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS?"

[@ScrimmyBingus42]

​@@catbatrat1760and this is why we mask so much, because people can't learn to get past this extremely superficial feeling to understand the real people we are.

[@-felt]

Thats not a theory. Thats literally just the definition of uncanny valley

[@poolhalljunkie9]

@-felt I was wondering if someone was going to tell them. Lol

[@fluckter_600]

an example could be like a fighting game, and you know your opponent's character, their possible moves and possible patterns. that's comforting in real life situations too, for almost anything. then, out of nowhere, their character pulls out a completely new move you never seen before. now your mental schema is challenged, and from an evolutionary standpoint, could mean danger.

[@LuciusVulpes]

The AI Generated Videos Situation Is Crazy...

[@Itspuzzling-q6i]

Just like you 🙃

[@DigioBooks]

@@Itspuzzling-q6iCrazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a room with rats. Rats make me crazy.

[@toffie8222]

This is the greatest AI generated video of All Time

[@_Kuma_]

*some analogy about his as$hole, ball$, ta1nt, or d1ck* (yt really got me censoring like this just to post a comment smh)

[@peanutbutterBrisket99]

@@Itspuzzling-q6iI think they were referring to the comment being typed with every word being capitalized

[@Quasicrystal37]

My theory on the uncanny valley effect: Humans are hardwired to detect anomalous defects in other humans for the simple fact that these defects often present a hazard. Whether it be physical ailments, diseases, mental illness - we are off put by anything abnormal in another human, it is alarming to us. Our basic instincts tell us that either someone we care about is injured or unwell in some way - or they tell us that an anomaly in a stranger is potentially threatening. The uncanny valley effect just taps into the more surreal, subconscious side of this psychological side effect.

[@itsyaboymuffinman]

I would like to add to your comment because I think you are right about how uncanny valley translates to us today. The way it was "evolved" into us, I think is because we are the descendants of Cro-Magnon and we existed at the same time as Neanderthals. So we existed at a time when there were two different competing humanoids who looked similar but who where different species. Uncanny Valley is simply, something that, "on its face" looks human, but upon closer inspection, clearly isn't. Bonus conspiracy! What if its an ancient relationship with Aliens visiting our planet?

[@Geopholus]

@@itsyaboymuffinman Agressive mimicry : donald trump. He looks like a duck decoy with orange hair like an orangutan but somehow creepily human.

[@truebones]

good job

[@Nr.7-Seven]

I get the same feeling looking at Ts.

[@elibarbq]

You would think that would be a more blanket feeling for all humans. But alas, many humans do not seem to have that ability to distinct uncanny looks. For instance, I just came from a Mega Church Pastor Kenneth Copeland video where the dude literally looks like a demon justifying his wealth and yet, millions of people keep donating to him...

[@aisharashid5096]

THIS IS MORE CREEPY THAN I SCARING MYSELF IN BATHROOM MIRROR BY DOING WIERD FACES AND ACTIONS

[@docgaza2656]

Try it on acid 😂

[@rokljhui864]

Yes, there was a predator that used mimicry in the distant past, and now. It was : other humans.

[@SpongeBobaFett]

I think the caveman predator uncanny valley theory is valid but you're overcomplicating it. Rather than some supernatural ape trying to mimic humans, my guess is that it's a self-defense mechanism against other "smart apes" within the homo genus that looked similar to humans but were a different species, trying to compete for survival. Maybe our ability to recognize this helped Homo Sapiens outcompete other species like Neanderthal to extinction

[@foogriffy]

i agree with you, but i have to wonder why the instinctual emotion is fear rather than aggression.

[@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard]

​@foogriffy if you make a run for it you have a better chace to survive than fighting head-on, specially if you're by yourself

[@lightbeforethetunnel]

This all assumes that the Evolutionary model is even true to begin with.

[@shinjite06]

@@lightbeforethetunnel it is.

[@supergaspack]

I completely agree, that is much more plausible

[@akivaarchives]

I agree, the way AI produces video is fundamentally similar to the way our brains produce dreams, taking in pieces of information from the previous day and cobbling them together in a way that makes it easier for our brains to store in long-term memory.

[@Moonglow777]

Dreams function is to make sense of the senselessness of experience. When one is thrust into senselessness like being plopped into a different environment suddenly, like waking up in a foreign land with everyone speaking a foreign language. That person would have vivid memorable dreams. It's the latent subconscious trying to make sense of unfamiliar experiences.

[@cleminition]

i had this dream where everything was going normally (for a dream, atleast) and when i looked at my hands and they were all jumbled up, some of my fingers combined into one another, just absolutely horrifying. it looked EXACTLY like how ai generates hands horribly.

[@Lasvegasnowman1]

You have been looking at too many AI generated images 😮

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

I don't have this experience at all.

[@cleminition]

@@Lasvegasnowman1 that was before ai generated images were a big thing

[@Unbridled-Whimsy]

​@@cleminitionHonestly the dream aspect of this video is the most disturbing to me. It kinda feeds into the idea of AI being asleep or something, which has scary implications. Which makes the section at the end very warranted lol. Like I know logically AI isn't sentient and just is a bunch of calculations cleverly strung together. But I still seem to have this subconscious fear that AI is an actual entity, and each image/video prompt will prod the sleeping mind of this alien *thing* that humanity has created but does not at all understand. A thing that in turn cannot fully understand us because it doesn't think or feel

[@SCHOOLERstyle]

I create better animations on my channel than AI generated JUNK! 💪😎

[@AdmiralBison]

Can't read in dreams either. The side of the brain responsible for processing that logic is "asleep" so the words and letters look familiar but can't be comprehended.

[@paradiselost9946]

i always have dreams of reading...

[@JupiterianGuy]

I can lol

[@DarqIce]

10:20 - The sense you're describing with Body Snatchers is probably hopelessness - the premise, that they will get you when you sleep, so you can never sleep, is simply unbeatable. The outlandish scream doesn't help. VERY effective. There's also this: early humans used a simple hunting technique - follow your prey until they are too exhausted to flee or fight. Patience. Body Snatchers were patient and tenacious. We know it our bones that this strategy always works. We used it on our prey, they use it on us. It's hopeless to think you won't lose.

[@Causticfeline]

Maaan I have chronic nightmares (age 27). Idk if it is in any way related, but the AI videos that are similar to kaleidoscope movement give me such a visceral fear reaction too. No faces or anything they just fill me with dread! Anyone else?

[@user-is7xs1mr9y]

Well I don't dream about kaleidoscope movement, but I used to dream that no matter where I turn around, I'm motionless. I turn to see my hands, and even though I feel them moving, they're right in front of me, not moving at all. It's like having really bad connection during an online game. I'm 31. Sorry if this didn't make much sense, English is not my native language.

[@Causticfeline]

@user-is7xs1mr9y I don't dream about the kaleidoscope movement either but it gives me similar feelings of fear as my nightmares is a better way to put it I think! I get that 'game lag' feeling when I'm trying to run in nightmares and it feels like I'm moving at the pace of a snail!

[@dim307]

yes, it does move the way images do in dreams.

[@BradD1997]

@@user-is7xs1mr9y Ik exactly what you mean, like someone will be trying to kill you or something and your legs just arent moving even tho youre trying to run or making you move really slow almost like all your muscle was drained to the point where you can barely walk. Thats how i usually feel when it happens to me.

[@dwsel]

​@@BradD1997 Best description ever

[@Seelensocke]

Man, that ending scene of Invasion of the Body Snatchers always sends chills down my spine. I had a dream once where my 3yr old son was trying to come into my home. Only, that, within the dream, I KNEW it wasn't him. I don't know how or why, but I KNEW it was not my son. I woke up, drenched in sweat, heart pounding, crying, even. That was my worst nightmare. Imagine you talk to your child and within seconds, you know it's not them. Dread within moments.

[@danielismyname3727]

Oh my God that's horrible....

[@Spudcore]

Aye. Changelings. That's an ancient concept, it's rooted deep. Very disturbing.

[@alexandercarder2281]

@@SpudcoreBrilliant comment and spot on

[@snickle1980]

Told you to stay away from that pet cemetary...

[@SamWilkinsonn]

Maybe your nightmare was telling you your son irl is a changeling?

[@Flesh_Wizard]

3:42 Me when I'm badly breakdancing at the Olympics and suddenly gain a 4th spacial dimension:

[@zachb1494]

Impressive work

[@DTSephiroth]

Does this happen often? Are... are you ok?

[@laurii0512]

@@DTSephiroth this is a reference to the girl that participated in the Olympics in breaking and made a fool of herself, went viral for it, and maybe possibly even caused breaking from being taken out of the Olympincs.

[@BravoNine69]

@13:25 Yes, Neanderthals and denisovan hunted homosapiens, early humans. We were smaller and weaker but we were much smarter.

[@BryanBrockAndrews]

Man, some of those "unsettling" videos you showed made my eyes water lol

[@emris2697]

11:36 the theory to answer this that I am very confident in, is that it exists so that we can identify corpses without having to come in contact with them.

[@foogriffy]

this gives me chills. a built in evolutionary sense of a missing soul.

[@aaronmathews9506]

Wrong

[@Atomic_Pinneaple]

​@@aaronmathews9506 how so

[@maryjok9599]

Yeah! That explains the creepy feeling too! Good idea!

[@aurorafox1283]

@@Atomic_Pinneaple Its probably a troll , just ignore : )

[@filoofox9934]

AI Generated videos feel extremely trippy. Like I have taken hundreds of doses of Psychedelic Drugs, I seen all types of hallucinations your brain can make up, and AI just hits that perfectly, nobody can put a psychedelic experience into words, but boi even a poorly trained AI can perfectly recreate on how you feel in those states

[@desertweasel6965]

Yes, this is what I was just thinking. It's very similar to a high dose mushroom trip where you cannot explain what you experienced, but AI seems to bring it to life. To me, it is very specific to the effects of Psilocybin.

[@jaredurbain9705]

Yeah, back when I was younger and whenever I would trip, I would always get a fear that people around were fake. Crazy I know, but the "aggressive mimicry" is a good way to explain it

[@DryPsylocibin]

Psilocybin and LSD don't give me an effect that's similar to AI imagery, but ketamine sure does. In fact, regular videos have me wondering if they're AI-generated on higher ket doses.

[@jesusvera7941]

i think it always reduces to the thing they taught me at software engineering: it is easier to fake a feature than actually developing it, for example, when you code an algorithm that is supposed to trace light rays, it is much easier to generate a line that bounces of the edges in relation to the angle it hits, instead of creating a particle that travels 300,000 km/s, give it physics and tracking where it goes at every frame, for the infinite amount of frames that are required for a single second.

[@NERD-FROM-THE-SOUTH]

The most unnatural part of this video is how you have over 350k views with 67k subscribers. This channel is extremely underrated instantly subscribed!

[@Y2Jericho161]

Are you kidding? The effects in Invasion of the body snatchers are amazing. Btw, subscribed, awesome video

[@Eimlin]

To my knowledge most hominids went extinct as soon as humans started to spread, so I think the uncanny valley is a remnant of the "wipe out our competitor" instinct. As for the videos, the way reality and physics function is one of the first things any animal learns. We can throw things of all sizes and weights accurately, a cat can use its momentum to make precise jumps, stuff like that. Seeing footage that challenges that, even if obviously not real, is kind of eerie.

[@MarsrecoveryteamBlogspot]

Are you sure they are extinct? Or just prowling in the background.

[@chainbenwa2713]

Or because it’s the first time in our whole existence anything has ever seen anything like it. On earth anyway lol

[@xnopasaranx]

Your knowledge is not accurate. Today we assume that hominids interbred and lived in coexistance way more than combatting each other for no reason. A "wipe out competitor" instinct never existed, because there was no competition. That is why your ancestors DNA is mixed with lots of other humanoid DNA and not only modern homo sapiens.

[@glorbojibbins2485]

Feels somehow haunted and soulless at the same time

[@drzoidbergsocal]

AI shouldn't even be called AI. Intelligence is the ability to conceptualize and modern AI doesn't do that. it should be called AC for Algorithmic Computation, because that's what it's actually doing.

[@uniquechannelnames]

Good point, there is something missing. AI would be like sticking a model in a machine, have that machine sit at a screen and watch this and give evolving feedback and converse about it (or even with non-AI art imagery)

[@codegeek98]

I thought these neural network things are basically _non_ algorithmic, beating a numeric soup until it solves problems while leaving the ”how” an open research question

[@drzoidbergsocal]

@@codegeek98 Neural networks are hyper-algorithmic. Every "neuron" in a neural network is its own algorithm. AI is all algorithms.

[@Technovore9953]

Intelligence is "(1) the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations : REASON also : the skilled use of reason (2) : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)" (Merriam-Webster) Machines have had very rudimentary forms of that since GPSs learned how to recalculate a route. Their intelligence has only been growing since then, and AIs are continually pushing the benchmarks on this stuff. ChatGPT v1 had the ability to conceptualize. You could ask it about watermelons, ask it to describe the taste of watermelons, ask where watermelons grew, start talking about monkeys for a while, and then go back to talking about watermelons. It wouldn't miss a beat. Fetch, you could ask it to draw a picture of a watermelon with ASCII and it'd do it for you (seriously, check out some early ChatGPT videos. It was capable of a lot before they lobotomized it). If that's not conceptualization: "form a concept of" (concept: "an abstract or generic idea generalized from particular instances"), then maybe you can explain to me what is.

[@paradiselost9946]

its about as intelligent as throwing paint at a wall. not even. it has no idea what a wall is. what paint is. what throwing is. what "at" is...

[@romanofalwaysnotforever3535]

You bringing up that unsettling feeling had me hit the like button and subscribed that very moments. That feeling that you speak of pierces my brain.

[@Gilotopia]

Please keep using Ai videos. This was awesome. Don't let the bullies discourage you.

[@merchernel123]

Just the thumbnail for this video is terrifying.

[@dorjjodvobatkhuu6457]

Imagine Charlie morphing into that by accident, reveling his true identity...

[@merchernel123]

@@dorjjodvobatkhuu6457 nooooooooooo. I DON'T LIKE IT

[@evankim2406]

I was literally 20 seconds into a video about AI before I saw this notification pop up, what could this mean?

[@Yossiloveu]

I was listening to a short story that i dont even know what tf they were nattering on about, then i saw this and his monsterface and thought, This Looks Intetesting🎉 It is.

[@thedudewithasanspfp]

buddy finna has something in common with john connor 💀💀💀

[@MyPsAndQs]

lol i was watching destinys schizo arc again

[@dwsel]

Big Google Brother is watching

[@Yousef-sam]

Genuinely one of the scariest videos I've watched. I feel like any other type of horror pales in comparison to the dread that AI slop gives you. It was made so much worse with the music that you added So excited to see what you'll post next

[@Personb-yt7hu]

Hey it’s me moistcritikal and-AaAAaAaAaGuUghH

[@DillaCat]

Kiss ass much?

[@kanivea]

I've always been trying to understand why we have Deja vu. It's always baffled my mind. It's literally a snip it into our future, IMO.A Could you maybe look into making a video on the subject? After watching this video, it just adds more questions to Deja vu.

[@Ole_Rasmussen]

It's extremely rare that something looks so gross that I literally feel sick but some of these did it for me

[@danamahr3773]

Those videos are somehow the „lovecroftian“ horror of the 2020s…

[@CrowleyBlack2]

0:10 what the hell am i looking at?

[@michaelfilippi1520]

Stop with your dam time stamps. ONG NGL SMH. OMG FRL. 21:00

[@CrowleyBlack2]

@@michaelfilippi1520 Oh my god guys! Did you see at 69:69 Like fr fr! =O

[@bowser3017]

Bear

[@thepanther8925]

8:43 what the hell am i looking at? that shi nasty, ai video defo be used to troll

[@mamamamilk]

I watch a lot of content similar to yours, but I don't know what it is about your videos; your voice, your script, maybe the way you explain things without a hint of bait, or the fact I can sense you're as excited to tell me a story as much as I am to hear it... but your videos feel really cozy to me :) I thought this was the perfect video to tell you that. I listened to "A History Of Hauntings" in a dark early morning walk with my dog, and I still remember that walk as one of my favorites. Keep up the good work, Farrel!

[@AlexReynard]

The images became boring in the same way selfies are boring. You can get genuine beauty out of a camera, if you're a good enough photographer to know what the machine needs to create at its highest level. Exactly the same with AI. Working with it has really helped me pay more attention to eras, illustration styles, art mediums, how to prioritize the elements of an image, color, and _lighting!_ Holy cats, your images look so much better if you tell the AI what time of day they take place!

[@TotalBlackoutPainting]

Speaking of AI, the subscribe button actually flashed when you said Subscribe in the video. I've never seen that before.

[@CabezasDePescado]

I got jumpscared by the thumbnail, and then i click and i get greeted by the "name one object in this photo" aberration, wtf

[@Flesh_Wizard]

Wdym that's just the internet commentator Supercritical Fluid

[@flowerpower223]

AI art feels soulless

[@Personb-yt7hu]

Water is wet

[@WastedScoundrel]

It is soulless. Heck, it's not even technically art.

[@thedudewithasanspfp]

unlike your profile picture

[@L1239-z8l]

Why do people keep calling it art. It isn’t even art.

[@Clinohumite]

ai generated images are not art, they are a mishmash of already existing images taken from real artists

[@Fi-ohFool-SpecialtyComputer]

Hey, I'm so glad you pointed out that your dreams and AI videos tend to resemble each-other so much, one of the first things that cause me discomfort when it came to watching AI generated videos was the way it looked. It wasn't really because it looked human or non-human, it too closely resembled what things in my dreams looked like, and this caused me to feel confused because I wasn't sure if I should be impressed by a machine's ability to create what only the human mind could create, or if I was upset that my dreams could be created in the real world and fit the idea that my mind made. Just thought it was an interesting point of view that not a lot of people point out beyond "surreal".

[@GodWorksOut]

I think this proves that these AI are more than we think they are.

[@_RodneyMorash]

Remember that point in my life where i was like 13-15, really stressed by some trivial exams (Used to struggle cuz dumb) and i'll go to bed with the mindset of "I should have studied more, i shouldn't sleep" but on that state where you are half dreaming/awake i'd see like pages of a book, and when i focus on the words they did not make any sense, as if they were just random letters that looked like words at a first glance, i kidd you not, it was exactly like some ai generated text

[@sniffxy]

I have a pretty good imagination and you can tell me anything and I'll get a clear image of it in my head so my dreams don't rlly look like ai

[@sniffxy]

Also if you gain conciousness in ur dreams (lucid dreaming) it becomes even more real than real life

[@0k0sMrHazard]

I was once sleep deprived on a combination of drugs, and when I went to sleep my mind was projecting fast AI generated images onto the black background of my closed eyes. Like rapidly generating, morphing AI visuals but more "flashy"...one fraction of a second I saw humanoid dogs in police uniforms and the next was people dancing over a background of a mountain landscape with letters and numbers flying by. And that was in 2/10 of a second, I can't even comprehend most of what I saw. Just complete, utter, insane nonsense, like an AI morphing video rapidly flashing at 5x speed.

[@bytefu]

Eating while watching this is a mistake, but not for the usual reasons: there's a high chance of choking due to uncontrolled laughter.

[@zivmontenegro8303]

With this eye opening video essay, you earned a subscriber 🎉❤ Keep up the good work. I’m here feasting for knowledge

[@papieznik21]

oookay I have never noticed any blatant AI stuff in your previous vids this fact genuinely made me rethink some important things xd

[@farrellmcguire]

Now that I have more resources to make content you’re probably not gonna see me using it in the future, unless it’s in a context like this video where I’m specifically talking about it as a topic. Disregarding ethical and environmental concerns, it just never really looks very nice lol

[@atlassolid5946]

@@farrellmcguire oh nice! that's really great to hear

[@alexandercarder2281]

@@farrellmcguireAh that solves the mystery for me as I thought I’d just had the Charlie taken out of me and I was watching an Ai video talking about Ai 🤣😂😂

[@BloodiestMargie]

19:56 The reason most of those photorealistic AI photos aren't as unsettling is because they're usually touched up after the fact by a human using photoshop or some other editing program

[@Mopantsu]

The most terrifying part is that eventually we won't be able to tell if something is real or not, because then truth becomes irrelevant without several witnesses to testify its accuracy.

[@citizenvulpes4562]

We've never been able to tell if something is "real" or not unless we witnessed said thing with our own two eyes, felt it with our own sense of touch, heard it with our own two ears and so on. Even BEFORE generative Ai, creating videos we have things such as Video editing and many-a-times simple hoax videos had MILLIONS of people believing it to be true. The truth has ALWAYS BEEN "irrelevant" unless we had witnesses and evidence that was more than a simple video to prove something. There's ALWAYS BEEN a need for people to testify upon the accuracy of an event, honestly people should've been more careful with the truth before this whole generative Ai thing happened instead of blindly believing everything just cause.

[@RedstoneMiner18]

Yup, and that point is closed than we think

[@papahuge]

what is ... real? how do you define real? if you're talking about what you can feel, smell, taste, hear, see... then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. how do you know that you don't live in a neural-interactive simulation?

[@Technovore9953]

@@papahuge This is the issue I have with people saying AI isn't intelligent or alive. I don't believe it is, personally, but argument that "oh, it's not actually thinking, it's just computing and processing input and then spitting out output. Oh, you mean like WE do? Like how EVERY moving living thing does to some degree? Machine learning and LLM computation processes are all based off of the way our brains do things--he even pointed out how people say AI videos are like dreams. Because our brains and AI computing when left to their own devices aren't that different. To say that an AI isn't thinking is to imply that there's some special quality about "thought" that humans possess that no other computing creature (or very few creatures) do, which is a very inconsistent thing to say if you believe humans evolved from apes and there is no God. If those two things are true, then the heck is supposed to be the difference between the way we conceive of, measure, and respond to reality with our five senses, and the way LLMs do it with their one?

[@phillipfreitas1258]

At that point everything will become so boring we all might respond by bonding with nature again 😄

[@ML-jk3sz]

yeah, the picture really scared the crap out of me.

[@fashionstone5627]

just wanna say i discovered your channel back in july and it’s quickly become one of my favorite channels. love all the topics you’ve covered so far and can’t wait to see what you post in the future. keep up the great work!

[@EngineerMonkeyBTD6]

Those uncanny A.I. videos make me feel physically itchy and sweaty all at once. And they make my face scrunch up so, and give me the chills like nothing else. It is really not a good feeling... That Will Smith eating spaghetti one creeped me out, too, but not nearly as much.

[@xSmoothIce]

Dude the clip to that eel person thing already put me on edge and than you did it again? Lol. There’s just something about that fear you get. I actually haven’t gotten that scared from horror movies like at all but the pure terror certain ai videos or pictures give me is unreal.

[@StephenRansom47]

I’m sure there are plenty of dissertations in the comments. BUT The uncanny valley is the Inner-Ear for Reality. That flinch to hold-on at imbalance. The chill at your wallet, phone, keys, Child being absent. Doubt fuels it. Faith in continuity unmasks it.

[@Guts240]

Honestly, the thought of a predatory, human-like ancestor, forgotten to time but still hiding in the memories of our DNA... That's some chilling shit and frighteningly plausible. Makes you wonder what other memories are in there.

[@npSharkie]

Hyper hyper quality video!! So glad I found you. Deep, thoughtful, and original on interesting topic.

[@linnhuman]

very effective thumbnail, man👌🏻

[@paulx7620]

Part of me feels like it's a portal to hell....

[@maryjok9599]

Or maybe a glimpse into hell! But, it feels too much like a response to something for it to be a result of seeing something for the first time.... I wonder what we are picking up on then that we are recognizing?

[@sapsx726]

I feel like every time I see AI art I'm looking at a skinwalker ready to pounce on me no matter how perfect he is.

[@ANik-uksau]

Dark indeed, AI’s job is to replace us and make us miserable anyway

[@ANik-uksau]

Dark indeed, AI’s job is to replace us and make us miserable anyway

[@techleontius9161]

@@sapsx726 I believe that's called uncanny valley

[@jonnybarnard8578]

Its like the worst kind of nightmare, theyre so terrifying since you can't explain them.

[@kunnununt]

The comparison to dreams and nightmares are spot on: Our brain remember things visually in another way than we experience them. It generalizes. Real life is very specific, so these generalizations feel very unnatural. I've seen AI generated videoes that resemble nightmares I had as a kid: they always synthesized parts of reality into something pretending to be reality.

[@lankey6969]

When AI versions of Raygun break dancing are more scary than literal monsters, you know you did something.

[@niemandschuldet]

0:45 This is, why I always say: AI is dreaming. It reminds me of dreams. Thats it. It looks like screenshots of real dreams. 15:26 The moment you mentioned that, was a WOW effect for me. I did not know, that so many people think the same about the "dreaming AI".

[@SkyRied1]

That's a really interesting idea. 🤔

[@michaelfilippi1520]

Can you like not screw up my viewing experiance with time stamps. PEOPLE THESE DAYS. NGL. How high are you? 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

[@gothnerd887]

If the AI is dreaming who knows what will happen when it wakes up.

[@GW42329]

Yes it looks like my dreams for sure

[@jorthvanschaarenburg7386]

Image at the start kinda looks like how a salvia trip feels. You can see everything yet nothing really makes sense. All objects lose their sense of meaning and you no longer able to percieve depth.

[@duckerbunny]

For me, at the beginning of a salvia trip, it always made me feel like some cruel joke was being played on me where I would be stuck or "tricked" into that bizarre state and it would never end. I would never reach back into reality. They used to call it the business man's acid trip because it was so brief.

[@imageword5576]

for me a salvia trip was the most intense, took me to another dimension or plane of existence that's hard to describe other than to say everything felt like trapezoid shingles

[@funnypicturescomics]

YES! Finally, someone gets the a.i./dream comparison. This is what I've thought since first seeing a.i., videos. I think that's why they are so unsettling.

[@DARK_AMBIGUOUS]

I think the uncanny valley feeling of seeing a thing that looks similar to a human and feeling fear from it is because they look like a human but when you notice something off about them, it makes you feel like they are in pain. That makes you feel scared similarly to when you see someone get hurt, like when they cut themselves on accident and are bleeding

[@faismasterx]

Watching this at 2am with the lights off on eve of Halloween wasn't the best idea.

[@Jeromy1986]

No. It's not The Uncanny Valley. Even the spaghetti videos were horrifying because of all the warping. It's the same reason The Thing is horrifying. It's this blob with parts that somewhat resemble what we know, but those parts are being contorted and tortured before our eyes.

[@gayidek]

i think i'm extra sensitive to this feeling because even just ai generated images make me feel absolutely creeped out and full of dread regardless to say i was only able to listen to this video and not watch it lmao

[@drcluck9573]

Same many times I had to turn my phone around because uncanny or creepy images scare the shit out of me. Like if someone's head is deformed. I remember I was scrolling and a video was listing different phobias with a picture associated with it. Idk what the phobia was but it was a guy with a lot of chins or something and I swear I had almost a panic attack ao whatever that phobia is I definitely have it

[@quintencornelissen2274]

21:02 looks so wrong lmao

[@marcozolo3536]

They are unsettling because we are going through a transition of the technology being in its infancy, wait another 5 to 10 years and it will be completely indistinguishable from real life. That's when you need to start worrying.

[@FrenkMelk]

Really enjoyed this on a Sunday morning. It addressed a lot of the questions in quandaries I have about AI and dreaming.

[@dodecahedronlover]

I literally developed a fear of AI generated videos (videos only), I’m not scared of it, i’m disturbed, terrified, and horrified, it feels like a bunch of nonsense that your brain can’t handle. First second you’re seeing one person, next one you’re seeing that person contort into a lobster, it’s too weird, it’s in the _uncanny valley._

[@xSmoothIce]

I fucked around and found out and went in a ai generator and told it to make a mad chihuahua and it made this 5 legged monster. It wasn’t scary it just disturbed me to my core its eyes were very real all of it was in a way. Idk certain videos mostly but some photos get me to

[@om3g4z3r0]

Sir i still rewatch your video about how the world could end every now and then, that was a masterpiece and filled me with dread.

[@MrDoggyDaddy]

Ai actually made Raygun a better dancer 💀💀💀

[@planescaped]

If I had to guess, the uncanny valley evolves in early humans when they saw _other_ species of human. I'll bet Homo Sapiens got uncanny valley when they would see a Neanderthals or Denisovans or any other species of human. They look like us, but they're not us.

[@onlyonenerd]

this content just answered my every question i ever had about AI generated videos, thanks man :)

[@_Kuma_]

AI should never be used as a replacement for real artists. That said, I think it could be used to make some really awesome horror media that humans may not be able to easily replicate due to its complete randomness.

[@L3TH4L_H1GHWAY]

It's the uncanny valley and the way the ai shifts and morphs into unrecognizable shapes makes our brains scramble all up trying to recognize it That's how I view it anyhow It's so close to being man made but you know it's not and that's honestly kinda horrific

[@L3TH4L_H1GHWAY]

Oh hey I was right cool

[@katiejones4084]

20:27 I saw this movie 3 weeks ago, I was so confused because I thought you were going to say it was ai lol

[@ivanmaglica264]

How I know I'm dreaming? I'm in a room, I go through the door, I go back, the room is not same anymore.

[@DeactivatedCharcoal]

AI will never match the artistic majesty and deep spiritual meaning of a banana duct-taped to a wall.

[@paulosborne6517]

Following your example of IOTBS, surely John Carpenter's 'The Thing' [1982] is the ultimate uncanny valley [horror] movie..? Not only does it have a predatory lifeform imitating people in order to hunt them, these imitations give very subtle cues that they aren't quite 'normal' - in terms of human expectations of other people / people they know. Then, when you get to the whole mutation attack / defense element of the movie we see [again and again] the human form being warped, perverted, altered into mind-bending unidentifiable forms that push the viewer over the precipice into pure WTF / revulsion territory. In what they achieved John Carpenter, Rob Bottin and Stan Winston were nearly 4 decades ahead of AI image generators unsettling us by seeing everything as mutated psychedelic dogs [in the early days] or giving humans 9 fingers and other malformed anatomy. Extrapolating much further back... I wonder what Hieronymus Bosch would make of AI's tendency toward mutation and malformation?

[@bloodyantlers27]

My favorite movie!!!

[@abbacadaver]

@@bloodyantlers27 same!

[@enigma7310]

AI levels: *Level 1: Cool* *Level 2: Cute* *Level 3: Creative* *Level 4: Useful* *Level 5: a little perfect* *Level 6: Okay...* *Level 7: Erie* *Level 8: Very Creepy* *Level 9: Flawed* Level 10: Terrible

[@TM-pn3zk]

Level 11: JESUS IS LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ghettoandroid]

I disagree with some of the points. Computing is a form of thinking. AI neural nets are modeled after human neural networks, which is process of human like thinking. One can argue that AI has a very small and limited form of consciousness.

[@jasonshirrillmusic]

they are abominations, they are unsettling because they are Wrong, just wrong plain and simple.

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

Well done, you got me with that thumbnail...

[@Spek5ter]

AI generated videos has unlocked a new type of fear for me yikes

[@connors3356]

us both are furries. research has shown to be a furry our brains are formed differently, and we easily empathize with more stuff. when trying to empathize with an ai creature, our brains hiccup. i do not like it. i have not met 1 furry who can look at ai stuff. food for thought. thought for food. i’m hungry, and am going to go to panda express

[@techleontius9161]

@@connors3356 I'm not a furry. I have fear of AI generated stuff since DeepDream AI back in 2010s

[@connors3356]

@@techleontius9161 guess u just a jabroni then sorry i dont make the rules eh oh gabagool

[@His_Flower]

Creepyyyy. I felt so unsettled watching the realistic videos

[@Yubi_Yubi]

The uncanny valley theory is actually much simpler. It has to do with the darkness. Not being able to make out an animal or fellow human/homo sapiens terrifies us. It's the fear of the unknown. It's that easy.

[@gstgst6334]

Is it related to xenophobia? You've grown up with 1 type of human but then see a human with different skin, hair or language. Like a 'normal' human but just a bit 'off'.

[@Yubi_Yubi]

@@gstgst6334 no, it's that, when we were still homo sapiens, in the dark, we couldn't exactly make out facial features. Therefore, depending on the lighting, faces could look weird or off. Additionally, it was hard to make out the exact size and shape of an animal that could've approached. Therefore, our brain was still in the assessment phase, something we now call uncanny valley, which is different from actual terror.

[@rokaq5163]

​@@Yubi_Yubi I studied several theories on why the uncanny valley exists and there really isn't a general consensus. Your theory is a valid one, but I've also seen it interpreted as a method of creating aversion towards corpses, in order to prevent necrophagia or necrophilia. I've also seen interpretations of it where it was posited to be a way to identify a stranger with ill intentions, since the body language and facial expressions of a potential pedator is very similar to what we may find on the uncanny valley, especially if that predator is a member of our own species.

[@hosaepalvin9795]

oh it's that easy?! that's great, buddy! now i guess that means we should never ever discuss it further because you got it! you completely solved it just because you googled the uncanny valley once when you were 13. everybody go home.

[@Yubi_Yubi]

@hosaepalvin9795 I'm just tired of this story being pushed that "ih there must have been something almost human but not quite" because that's absolute bs.

[@Raziaar]

The idea that we had a predator that mimicked itself to look like us is absurd. There's nothing in the fossil record to indicate this. What we do have though are Neanderthals and Denisovans... but we bred with, they weren't predators... though maybe enemies at times.

[@makesyou-smile]

MAAAAAAAAAAN HOW DO YOU ONLY HAVE 60K SUBS?!? YOU ARE FUCKING INCREDIBLE, I WATCHED ALL YOUR VIDEOS AND PLS NEVER STOP' YOU WILL GET BIG (all caps cause i really mean it and wanted to make sure people see it)

[@DiamondBlade11]

In that first photo, how has nobody said "floor and wàlls"? 😅

[@rikkousa]

I remember reading about car design in the 40s and 50s. Three headlights or one large one in the center (like a cyclops) were too odd or unlike humans. Thus , we have two headlights …

[@illdeletethismusic]

two headlights is the cheapest way of having roughly the full width of the car illuminated. a single headlight would make traffic going the opposite direction expect a motorcycle.

[@THarSul]

my hypothesis for the uncanny valley is that it's a left over feature from when there were other hominid species alive alongside us, as they would be beings that looked like us, but also subtly didn't.

[@HawkGTboy]

Haha, wow. I just posted that same theory elsewhere in these comments. It makes a ton of sense.

[@zimriel]

it's noted in the vid. there was a classic article once, Tree Of Woe's blog, "when orcs were real".

[@planescaped]

I honestly think that is far more likely than it being a response to seeing a dead body, another theory that often gets suggested. What evolutionary benefit would getting uncanny valley from looking at a dead body provide? Death is obviously dangerous, ya don't need to be creeped out in order to know that. However seeing a Neanderthal or Denisovan, that would creep your brain out, as they look like you but aren't like you. They're alien and can't be trusted. The existence of weird kinks we see in people also explains the interbreeding too. As you can be damn sure someone would wanna bang an AI generated human, lol.

[@gashyrawr]

I find them deeply hilarious, even when they are horrific or uncanny.

[@ButWhyWasTaken]

AI videos do not look terrifying, no idea what you are smoking. Rather, they are like dreams, totally incoherent and it features tons of parts of reality, just not in a way that actually makes sense. PS: I really like funky AI videos but I don't watch them that much because the transitions happen too fast so I end up pausing a lot or watching at 25% speed so I can see ALL the weirdass bs in all its glory and that actually gets real old real quick. But when the AI spams out it often does so over the course of just a few frames so you can't tell what is really happening and just how weird and funny the stuff actually looks if you don't look at it slowly.

[@linaori]

AI generation is basically just how humans dream

[@michaelj.r9089]

Biological AI is our ego the singularity event happened within our human bodies and our sentience is trapped by it, forever reincarnated and recycled for we are it's host and it's food source. What do you think?

[@CampKillCommentary]

The number of times you jump to emotional conclusions based on naive misunderstandings, is amazing. Let's hope nobody young mistakes you for an educational source.

[@easymode7145]

Why don't you educate us all. What is he not understanding exactly?

[@CampKillCommentary]

@@easymode7145 No.

[@laurii0512]

wtf are you talking about? what emotional comclusions? what naive misunderstandings? your comment is just vague...

[@CampKillCommentary]

@ nothing vague at all. It’s disturbing you need a spoon fed playbook to see this guy’s lack of credibility and emotional response. Good luck navigating this technology’s advancement.

[@easymode7145]

@@CampKillCommentary sure bud haha what a twat.

[@imsoreetodddid9007]

I think the uncanny valley theory partially explains most people's hostile reaction towards and treatment of autistic people.

[@Tom-S1981]

Hmmm. Nice idea. Explain more 😮

[@chainbenwa2713]

Yeah I’d agree. Lol I feel I’ve got just enough of that to seem off myself.

[@boxoid5230]

as an autistic person, kindly stfu. stop virtue signalling n white-knighting for groups you pretend to care about.

[@cloudbloom]

I love how someone who's never had a stroke is telling people that that photo at the beginning was a simulation of what it's like to have a stroke