Digital humans

[JimDandy]

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?

[TheJames]

1. Search "Uncanny Valley"

[Javaman]

5. or Michelle Bachmann. nt

[JimDandy]

8. Any thoughts on why the industry

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

[Trillo]

2. Just disconnect the cable. Unplug.

There is life after TV.

[JimDandy]

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.

[NBachers]

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.

[kentauros]

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

(full movie)

[JimDandy]

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?

[Orrex]

6. Did we learn nothing from Bereet?

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