The Uncanny Horror of AI Hallucinations

Why is it so creepy when AI gets it wrong? And what does it have to do with us…? Perhaps the vampires of Blindsight, the quirks of our visual cortex, and my sleep paralysis demon can explain ;)

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TW: Contains depictions of visual & auditory hallucinations in humans, some mildly frightening. Mild flashing patterns.

SPOILERS?
Mild early/mid-book spoilers for Blindsight.

No AI footage was used in this video, aside from pre-existing examples found across the web.

Thanks to Danil Krivoruchko for the use of footage from the Blindsight short film. Full credits:
https://blindsight.space

Thanks to Johan Nordberg for the use of footage from 'Inside the Mind of An Artificial Brain' and 'Noisedive', the zooming Deep Dream videos:
https://vimeo.com/132700334
https://vimeo.com/132593159

AI HALLUCINATIONS REFERENCED
Unauthorized voice generation: https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-syste...
Looking for a light: https://chatgpt.com/share/cf83f171-9a...
Hour by hour, I am sick and cannot move & 'please go home (intro)' hallucinations:
https://chatgpt.com/share/f5341665-7f...
Final reminder:   / chat_gpt_voice_breaks_character_and_turns_...  
King of cups:   / creepy_groans_in_read_aloud_feature  
Innocence was bliss:
https://suno.com/song/a76330f6-c472-4...
See better in the sun:
https://chatgpt.com/share/0c8869d5-bf...
Code meltdown:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sc...

READING MATERIALS REFERENCED
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Minds, Brains & Programs by John Searle
The Uncanny Valley by Masahiro Mori
Le Jardin by Oscar Wilde
Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey

Music from Epidemic Sound

ADDITIONAL VIDEO & PHOTO ATTRIBUTIONS
Free Vj Loop, Noisy texture by Catmac, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cube, 60 transforms by Frederik Vanhoutte, CC BY-SA 3.0
Necker Cube in Pseudoscopic 3d by Rxe08, CC BY-SA 3.0
Electrical and chemical communication between neurons by Oist, CC BY-SA 3.0
PACS Recap Reflection- Brain CT by Nick Bates, CC BY-SA 3.0
The Rake (2014) Horror by Shun Otsubo, CC BY 3.0
Puma con su cachorro by Daniel Cross, CC BY-SA 3.0
HOW TO HUG A SUNFLOWER by Leonardo Venturi, CC BY 3.0
Sunflower by matt freire, CC BY 3.0
hallucination dream sequence, 2017 by Benjamin Gardner, CC BY 3.0
Keep Your Eyes Ahead by Whitney Van Cleave, CC BY 3.0
Rorschach Trailer 2017 by Claudia Wirth, CC BY 3.0, Vimeo
Sunflower timelapse by Typotheque, CC BY 3.0, Vimeo
Fall by JRphotography.eu, CC BY 3.0
Evan Pokrandt - Catch by Evan Pokrandt, CC BY 3.0
Robot arm R1 operation of the autonomous laboratory by Nathan J. Szymanski et al., CC BY 4.0
Waarom hebben we nog steeds geen robot als BFF by Universiteit van Nederland, CC BY 3.0
Robots at Miraikan by Davide Mauro, CC BY 4.0
How people imagined hell in the Middle Ages by Terra X, CC BY 4.0
Interior of the Old Library, Trinity College, Dublin by Yair Haklai, CC BY 4.0
Smodinkna pečina by Bojan Marušič, CC BY 4.0
Buizerd vliegend by Natuur Digitaal (Marc Plomp), CC BY-SA 3.0
Activities of the 94th Aero Squadron (France) (1918), US National Archives, CC BY 3.0
Controle voor luchtverkeer & 'Nieuwe radarinstallatie Weeknummer by Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, CC BY-SA 3.0
Camara de Lobos Pareidolia by TeWeBs, CC BY 4.0
Болото-смайлик by Ted.ns, CC BY 4.0
Old concrete wall by Tomascastelazo, CC BY 4.0
Pareidolia metal face by Mbejger, CC BY 4.
Stripes on flank of Grévy's zebra by Servali, CC BY 4.0
Western honey bee on a honeycomb by Matthew T Rader, CC BY 4.0
Disegno su una piuma by Albarubescens, CC BY 4.0
Las Palmas, botánico 1993 by LBM1948, CC BY 4.0
Wisconsin patterns by Šarūnas Burdulis, CC BY 2.0
Münster by Park Sentmaring, CC BY-SA 4.0
Jack pattern by Baluperoth, CC BY-SA 4.0
Patterns in the sand, Sands of Forvie National Nature Reserve by Martyn Gorman, CC BY 2.0
Internet archive (public domain):
7 Tesla MRI of the ex vivo human brain at 100 micron resolution by Edlow, Brian L. et al. (2019),
Brain Portraits by Tomas Laurenzo
neurons by Vritis First aid
Plan 9 from Outer Space by Ed Wood
Orion Nebula 3D Fly-Through by NASA
Micrin Mouthwash Commercial
Ghosts of Hanley House
The Green Hat by Lilla Cabot Perry, 1913
Peacocks by Melchior d' Hondecoeter, 1683
Bulb Fields by Vincent van Gogh, 1883
The Ladies Waldegrave by Joshua Reynolds, 1780

Holy crap, I think that's all of them. I almost ran out of characters.