by William Kherbek // Dec. 20, 2022
In the flood of writing and pondering about the advance of artificial intelligence-enabled art, the word "uncanny" keeps popping up.Writers and artists frequently describe the warped, hyper-real/hyper-cursed images programs such as DALL-E and Midjourney produce as possessed of the kind of eerie life-but-not-life effects discussed in Sigmund Freud's 1919 essay 'The Uncanny.' Freud was building on an earlier essay by another German pioneer of psychology, Ernst Jentsch, whose 1906 essay, 'On the Psychology of the Uncanny,' potentially speaks more directly to the 'machinic uncanny' of AI than Freud.
In the flood of writing and pondering about the advance of artificial intelligence-enabled art, the word "uncanny" keeps popping up.Writers and artists frequently describe the warped, hyper-real/hyper-cursed images programs such as DALL-E and Midjourney produce as possessed of the kind of eerie life-but-not-life effects discussed in Sigmund Freud's 1919 essay 'The Uncanny.' Freud was building on an earlier essay by another German pioneer of psychology, Ernst Jentsch, whose 1906 essay, 'On the Psychology of the Uncanny,' potentially speaks more directly to the 'machinic uncanny' of AI than Freud.
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