Jennie Kermode

"Perhaps because of the distancing effect of the distortion, which immediately labels it as something separate from life, the film doesn’t have much of that uncanny valley effect that some people find repellant. 

"It’s still a little too rough-hewn to be creepy in that way, but there’s a sensuousness about it, a sort of tacit eagerness to please, which is at time quite unsettling. 

"Artistically, it promises magic and yet it is, in this form, obviously no more than a tool, a void which can never create in the absence of a human user. 

"For want of a better term, one might say that it too patently lacks a soul. One might be tempted to ask it to describe in single words only the good things that come into its mind about its mother.

"Despite this, the film has a certain charm, and at a crisp six minutes does not overstay its welcome." 
Can We Really Know Anything About Carrots? An experiment with artificial intelligence, looking at the world from a different perspective
Director: Scott Bateman
Writer: ChatGPT, Scott Bateman
Year: 2023
Runtime: 6 minutes
Country: US

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