Don’t feel guilty, though. The urge to look at famous people is embedded in our primate evolution: a 2005 study<\/a> found that Macaques will even ‘pay’ to see pictures of other macaques of ‘higher social status’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are acutely attuned to recognise faces – our ability to decide whether that other ape is a threat or not is the skill that kept us alive. (That same neural circuitry is now put to work whilst scrolling through the ‘sidebar of shame<\/a>‘)<\/p>\n\n\n\n This new bot on twitter<\/a>, tumblr<\/a> and (shortly) Instagram, posts blended celebrity pictures. The proportions are chosen at random, though never more than 60% of either, to ensure that the resulting image sits right in the uncanny valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFollow @celebreedy<\/a>![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.shardcore.org\/shardpress2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Eminem_01-41Jeff_Bezos_01-59_comp-924x1024.png\")
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