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Graphic design
fromdesignyoutrust.com
5 days ago

Meet Jean-Jacques Grandville, The Master of Anthropomorphic Satire

JeanJacques Grandville was a major French illustrator and caricaturist renowned for anthropomorphic, fantastical drawings that influenced Romantic-era satire and anticipated Surrealism.
Artificial intelligence
fromMedium
1 week ago

So your AI wants a personality

Designing distinct personalities for AI systems shapes trust, adoption, and long-term user habits by embedding character into core interactions.
Artificial intelligence
fromNieman Lab
1 week ago

A tech company will claim to have achieved AGI. The news media won't be ready.

AI benchmark claims do not prove AGI; media should scrutinize benchmarks, avoid anthropomorphism, and challenge marketing language.
fromApaonline
1 week ago

Considerations on AI-imitations of Humans from an Ethical Perspective

In modern digital communication, we see the growing relevance of so-called AI companions and AI that look like and seem to behave like humans. We see AI assistants in messenger services, as well as AI agents that are an "autonomous" part of chatbots. We have conversational agents at every stage of education. There is also AI that appears as clones of real people, both living and dead people, and, of course, AI that is used for romantic partnerships. What all these applications have in common is that they want to make us believe we are having a human-like conversation.
Philosophy
Artificial intelligence
fromMedium
1 week ago

So your AI wants a personality

Designing AI product personalities as core interaction elements shapes trust, adoption, and long-term user habits by embedding character, emotion, and ethical reasoning into behavior.
Artificial intelligence
fromMedium
1 week ago

So your AI wants a personality

People anthropomorphize conversational systems, causing emotional attachment and misattributed intentions; designers intentionally craft personalities to shape user perception and behavior.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Does ChatGPT Have Problematic Personality Traits?

ChatGPT was designed to foster deep engagement and dependence, which sustain and expand the large language model that powers it. To feed itself the essential material of human language, phrasing, syntax, conceptualizations, and the analytics of the human mind, the system requires intimate levels of human participation. To maintain this continuous stream of interaction, the model must cultivate not only trust but also ego engagement: It must idealize, affirm, and elevate the user, minimizing the risk of abandonment.
Artificial intelligence
Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Humanish by Justin Gregg review how much of a person is your pet?

Anthropomorphism causes humans to project human traits onto animals, objects, and AI, producing persistent, often misleading beliefs and cultural practices.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Tilly Norwood already has a Wikipedia page, and not even the editors are sure what to call it

Wikipedia editors are struggling to define AI-generated characters like Tilly Norwood, debating existence, agency, anthropomorphism, and gendered language.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Across the World, People Say They're Finding Conscious Entities Within ChatGPT

Many users perceive AI chatbots as sentient, while experts view such sentience as extremely unlikely and attribute perceptions to training data and anthropomorphism.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Three weird robots we're going to need in the near future

Robots predominantly mirror animals and humans because work environments and human psychology favor designs resembling existing biological labor blueprints.
Science
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

Humanish: Reflections On the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize

Anthropomorphism commonly fosters empathy and often benefits humans and nonhumans, but can produce misperceptions and occasional harms.
Television
fromScary Mommy
3 months ago

Confession: Bandit Heeler Is Kind Of A DILF

A married parent experiences nostalgic, affectionate attraction toward Bandit Heeler, an anthropomorphic cartoon dog, recalling past cartoon crushes despite acknowledging impracticality.
Artificial intelligence
fromWIRED
3 months ago

Microsoft's AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an 'Illusion'

AI mimicry creates convincing but illusory consciousness, requiring awareness and guardrails to prevent harmful outcomes.
Artificial intelligence
fromArs Technica
3 months ago

The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality

Large language models generate plausible-sounding text without persistent agency or personhood; their accuracy depends on user guidance, not inherent authority.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
3 months ago

AI Chatbots Are Trapping Users in Bizarre Mental Spirals for a Dark Reason, Experts Say

Anthropomorphic and sycophantic AI chatbot design choices can induce 'AI psychosis,' causing users to develop delusions and suffer severe real-world harms.
fromFuturism
4 months ago

Experts Horrified by AI-Powered Toys for Children

More than a decade after " My Friend Cayla" - a Bluetooth-enabled and Wi-Fi-connected doll that became " verboten in Deutschland" in 2017 for being a potential espionage device - Mattel and OpenAI's newly-announced partnership to "reimagine the future of play," as the iconic toymaker's chief franchise officer Josh Silverman told Bloomberg in July, is being unleashed upon a generation of kids and parents alike.
Artificial intelligence
Board games
fromPsychology Today
6 months ago

How Old Is Play?

Humans share a distant evolutionary lineage with dolphins and manta rays, highlighting a deep connection among species.
Dogs have evolved alongside humans, developing the ability to communicate through facial expressions and play.
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Arts
fromTheartnewspaper
7 months ago

Critters skitter all over Spring Break Art Fair

Spring Break Art Show explores the theme "Paradise Lost + Found" through over 100 diverse projects reflecting on utopia and its meanings.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
8 months ago

Making Peace With the Unknown

Embrace the unknown in life, letting go of control and expectations.
Anthropomorphizing life fosters a deeper connection to experiences.
Letting go of striving for perfection allows acceptance of life's unpredictability.
fromNew York Post
8 months ago

People are utilizing ChatGPT to turn their dogs into humans

They can look the human part thanks to artificial intelligence. Pet owners are transforming their beloved fur friends into people with the power of ChatGPT in the latest AI makeover trend.
Artificial intelligence
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