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[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is there a word for uncanny valley but it’s not a person?

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just uncanny. I like that word by the way, one of the few we picked up from the scots.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/canny

The older sense of eldritch and the newer sense of weird also all work. Unfortunately using all these words means we're calling AI models fae. In a lot of ways, of course, true AI would be fae