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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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This reflex to attribute intention explains why AI is so controversial, compelling and *eerie*. Mark Fisher defines eeriness as "when there's something present where there should be nothing, or if there is nothing present when there should be something":
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/large-language-models-are-uncanny
2026-09-21T11:48:09.337Z