The viral "uncanny valley" makeup trend is taking over TikTok with more than 40 million views as creators are trying to spook their viewers with their scary good makeup skills.

The most ancient examples of an Uncanny Valley response to artificial life occur in Homer’s Odyssey (ca. 700 BC). In the Underworld, Odysseus jumps back in fear when he encounters vivid pictures ...

The uncanny valley, explained: Why you might find AI creepy. Even if we can’t “see them”, programs like ChatGPT's ability to emote like a human gives some people an eerie feeling.

The phrase “uncanny valley” is widely accepted to have originated in 1970, with the publication of an academic paper by roboticist Masahiro Mori in an obscure journal called Energy. Mori's ...

Generally called the uncanny valley makeup trend, it involves creators using makeup to appear as hyper-realistic bots. Some of the videos under this trend have received up to 13 million likes on ...

Ensuring all of your proportions are slightly "off" is key to achieving the Uncanny Valley makeup look. "Focus on making everything look a little bit more," Alvarez says."This means bigger eyes ...

While the uncanny valley's origins are often cited back as far as the 1970s to roboticist Masahiro Mori in relation to human-like robots, the idea of the uncanny itself actually goes even further ...

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Natalie Wolchover is a reporter for Simons Science News. She is on Twitter. Updated March 8, 2013, 10:46 AM Computer-generated imagery works great for background special effects. But applied to ...