Howard Rheingold on Nostr: Millions of years of evolution taught us to pay close attention to faces. It turns ...

Millions of years of evolution taught us to pay close attention to faces. It turns out we haven't evolved enough yet to distinguish real humans from artificial constructs. We claim otherwise, but experiments at Stanford show we treat artificial voices, faces, as if they were human.

"Media Equation is a general communication theory that claims people tend to assign human characteristics to computers & other media, and treat them as if they were real social actors."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Media_Equation