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Currently, talking to a face is the ultimate guarantee that you are communicating with a human (and on a subconscious level makes you try to relate, empathise, etc.). If humanoid robot technology eventually surpasses the Uncanny Valley, discovering that I'm talking to a humanoid with an LLM and that my intuitions had been betrayed would undermine the instinctive trust I give to the other party when I see a human face. This would degrade my social interactions across the board, because I'd live in constant suspicion that the humans I was talking to weren't actually human.

It is for this reason I think it should be the law that humanoid robots must be clearly differentiated from humans. Or at least that people should have the right to opt out from encountering realistic-looking humanoids.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

asimov explained how androids should be human form so that our world continues to be designed around our shape, rather than leaving us behind. doesn't require an uncanny face though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

That's a fascinating thought