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Wed Mar 12, 2014, 12:23 AM

Digital humans

in TV commercials are just creeping me out. I have to switch the channel when commercials like Ocuvite or Maytag come on that feature digitized humans instead of human actors. Something about the faces are so unsettling that I can't stand to watch them. Are these companies too cheap to hire actors or is something else going on?

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Reply Digital humans (Original post)
JimDandy Mar 2014 OP
TheJames Mar 2014 #1
Javaman Mar 2014 #5
JimDandy Mar 2014 #8
Trillo Mar 2014 #2
JimDandy Mar 2014 #7
NBachers Mar 2014 #3
kentauros Mar 2014 #4
JimDandy Mar 2014 #9
Orrex Mar 2014 #6

Response to JimDandy (Original post)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 01:07 AM

1. Search "Uncanny Valley"

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Response to TheJames (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 08:12 AM

5. or Michelle Bachmann. nt

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Response to TheJames (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 04:05 PM

8. Any thoughts on why the industry

is turning to computetized human images instead of using real people? Is it financial?

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Response to JimDandy (Original post)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 01:21 AM

2. Just disconnect the cable. Unplug.

There is life after TV.

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Response to Trillo (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 04:01 PM

7. It's not the TV per se.

Sweden used a fully computerized "human-looking" visage of a 10 year-old Philippine girl to catch 1000 on-line child predators. It was a clever trap and the image did fool all of those men. When I saw the computerized image, though, I was able to discern immediately that it was a digital image of a human.

There is something about a digitized human image that is unsettling and unbelievable to my eyes. Maybe that will change in the future as the technology gets better. But right now, if the image trying to sell me a product or position isn't believable, then what the image is saying automatically becomes unbelievable too.

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Response to JimDandy (Original post)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 03:53 AM

3. They're getting us accustomed to the re-animated corpses who will soon be doing disagreeable jobs

Street cleaning, toxic clean-up, political dissident disposal, Monsanto objector collection, etc.

Persistent late night tapping, gently rapping, rapping at your chamber door.

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Response to NBachers (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 04:47 AM

4. Yes. They have Cast A Deadly Spell on us.




(full movie)



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Response to NBachers (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 04:13 PM

9. Ha ha!

There are getting to be a lot of computer generated life like human images in print ads, online and on TV. Can you discern when the images are digitized or real and does it bother you in any way if they are digitized?

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Response to JimDandy (Original post)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 09:08 AM

6. Did we learn nothing from Bereet?

It's The Incredible Hulk #277 all over again, people!

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