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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 25 2019, @12:52AM
No, no, no.... It's just PETR. People for the Ethical Treatment of Robots.
What do you mean that it doesn't roll off the tongue and makes it seem like we're just a lazy and weak rip-off of another organization? Nobody, but nobody, gets away with accusing us of being a limp PETR.