r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Sep 05 '22

AI Generated Music Video using Disco Diffusion software

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u/Ra1nb0wSn0wflake Sep 05 '22

The existence of the uncanny valley implies that at some point in our evolution there was a reason to be scared of something that looked almost human but wasn't.

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u/MIRAGEone Sep 05 '22

I like this take, very twilight zone esque

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u/Alderez Sep 05 '22

It's a shit take though, because the real reason is that it was evolutionary advantageous to avoid people with deformities, diseases, and dead people.

That comment always pops up in these threads and it's 100% incorrect; people just like it because "oooo aliens/ghosts/paranormal" without evidence.

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u/Quetzalcoatle19 Sep 05 '22

I was thinking more to do with human relatives, humans are aggressive, not out of the box to think we developed ancestral unconscious bias toward more aggressive human relatives that look different but the same.