Care-AI Seminar Series: Animation and Artificial Intelligence, or How and Why is Chat GPT Like Mickey Mouse

Animation increasingly defines the cultural contours of the twenty-first century and is broadly used across many forms of digital media. More than just cartooning, puppetry, or CGI, animation is a paradigm involving the projection of qualities perceived as human, such as power, agency, will, and personality outside of the self and onto objects in the environment. In this talk, I argue ChatGPT and similar chatbots powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) can be best understood as animated characters and that other characteristics of animation—including reliance on stereotypes, obfuscation of human labour, and manipulation of an audience's emotions—can help us both analyze and respond appropriately to interactive AI technologies and the hyperbolic claims of their promoters.

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