but i just haven't learned how to be human yet

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

tiktok is scary to me because even (especially!!) if the content of the video is pleasing and interesting and such its still offputting for me bc like. of the hyperreality of it. it feels so perverse. you made dog cookies or you built something or you went around doing so and so and thats wonderful but its so. masturbatory. in a way. its so guardedly unguarded. fenced in garden of spectacle. its like a dark presence in an otherwise beautiful scene