Will AI Feel Disgust?
On the origins and future of the ick
Welcome to The Ick, Season 4: DISGUST. This season I’ve invited a brilliant cast of writers and friends to explore what makes us recoil and why.
Season 4 will culminate in a print magazine and live reading in San Francisco. Subscribe here so you don’t miss event info and updates. Every paid subscription helps us cover printing costs.
Next up, Rhys co-authors a comic with Midjourney about the anthropological origins and future of disgust.
Author’s note: I prompted most of the illustrations in Midjourney, edited them in Comic Life 3 or Photoshop, then arranged them with my written dialogue in InDesign. Thanks to Emily for feedback and direction, to the internet and AI for research help, and to my cat Diego for snuggles.
Further Reading
From Stability to Inconsistency: A Study of Moral Preferences in LLMs by Jotautaite et al
The Other Side by Nicky Case
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
Rhys Lindmark is the founder of Roote. He’s making videos on How Everything Evolved and writing comics at Ada & Locke.
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