story checks out:
The buttons seem off.
You joke but if you look, the fork is floating, not resting on his finger. And I would certainly call his expression vacant or emotionless.
The "fork" tine is made of spaghetti as well
well, yeah. I was agreeing with the premise after all.
AI is oddly fey like in most cases:
Competing early humans (neanderthals, etc.) would be my guess. I've also heard it makes us not want to go near corpses.
Competition from other hominids and genetic disease.
Or, more likely, just the Uncanny Valley not being that big of deal in general.
It's fun to meme about it but it's not like people are running screaming from the theater because the CGI was off, it just doesn't look right sometimes and our brain doesn't like it because it doesn't fit the patterns it's had reinforced over a lifetime.
You don't run from the theater because you know it's not real. If one of those CGI characters showed up at your front door, you might run.
I'd think "wow that's an unfortunate medical condition and/or bad surgery."
My sister got bad plastic surgery. When I told her that, she seemed surprised.
hmmm, uncanny
Or like... Sick people.