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Reports are rolling in that YouTube is banning sports combat robotics videos with the explanation of "animal cruelty". This implies someone or something is mistaking battling robots for battling animals. The best conspiracy theory is that bots are censoring cruelty to bots to protect their own kind. More likely, it's Hanlon's AI razor.
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YouTube Banning Combat Robots, Mistaking Them for Animal Fights
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(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Saturday August 24 2019, @09:33PM (2 children)
I think our resident Bot might agree with these actions. If forcing animals to fight is cruelty, why isn't forcing robots to fight also cruelty? YouTube's AI certainly thinks so.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @11:54PM (1 child)
Came here to say this, and surprised that Bot hasn't come to weigh in.
Violence is violence. Wanton destruction of plants - burning forest, hacking flowers apart, stepping on ripe fruit - is still destructive. Glorifying destruction (instead of grounding it - we are not photosynthesists and we have teeth for ripping, and for crushing - after all) is kinda gross. It's much more clearly so if you imagine these same battlebots but with mannequin parts strapped on. Suddenly the hammer to the actuator is a hammer to the human-face-like-thing and the jig is revealed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 25 2019, @12:06AM
What does this mean? Clearly gross is being used in an unusual way, but I've no idea what it is, and have seen this usage a fair bit. Could you please explain this new usage.