Uncanny Valley Meaning?
8.8BRAINROT SCOREUncanny Valley The eerie, unsettling feeling people experience when looking at a humanoid robot or AI-generated human face that looks almost, but not quite, convincingly real.
Origin:Coined by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in a 1970 essay in the journal Energy as 'bukimi no tani genshou' (不気味の谷現象); British art critic Jasia Reichardt translated the term into English as 'the uncanny valley' in 1978.
First Seen:1970
Peak Era:1970 (Original Japanese Essay) / 2010s-2020s (CGI & AI-Face Discourse Revival)
Aura Impact:+2 Aura (correctly citing Mori's 1970 essay) / -3 Aura (thinking it's just internet slang from the 2010s)
EXAMPLE USAGE
"The AI-generated avatar's smile was just wrong enough to fall straight into the uncanny valley."
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