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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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @03:04PM (3 children)
Maybe they self-identify as animals, you bigot!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @03:16PM (2 children)
Someone call the NAACR. The National Association for the Advancement of Combat Robots.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @03:53PM (1 child)
Or the RRFO Robots Rights and Feelings Organization.
(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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @03:44PM
It's probably just botched automation, but I wouldn't rule out an emotional human wanting an excuse to make the cause of their bad feelings go away.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Saturday August 24 2019, @04:03PM
What happened was someone was battling killer robots against call center robocallers. Unfortunately, some bleeding heart wussies say they only just qualify as animals.
Announcer: "Razorbot slices Rachel From Cardholder Services clean in half! Fresh meat from India!"
Well, we can dream can't we?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @04:09PM
This kills children, since they'll try it at home!
This Promotes/Glorifys actual animal fights!
Normal people don't want to watch small things be violently torn apart for fun!
This could stoke innate violent urges in a small portion of the viewers, but the harm is large enough to outwigh the benefits!
It's easy to justify anything if your standard for accepting an argument is that it sounds true/is intuitively reasonable/the counterargument sounds bad.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Saturday August 24 2019, @06:08PM (1 child)
We've gotta ban this now! Battle Star Galactica showed us exactly where this will lead.
Mud wrestling Youtube videos of Cylon Number 6 versus Number 8! (The horror!)
Our children's morals will never be safe!
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday August 25 2019, @12:58AM
Number Six [wikimedia.org]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @06:35PM (2 children)
this is all part of Google's push for trans-humanism. they are just trying to set precedent for machine rights. just like corporations are people so will robots be. try to fight the terminator will be against the law, so saeth the lord Google!
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 24 2019, @11:14PM (1 child)
I think the conspiracy explanation is much more simple. Jews run Googl. Jews think that the only tribalism allowed so as not to present a threat to their dominance is theirs. Henceforth, Jews are out to diamantle all tribalism that isn't directly in favor of them, and outlaw criticism of their own.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 25 2019, @04:10AM
Even jews think you are stupid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @07:18PM
This is not surprising; it's just what happens when you rely on algorithms for moderation. A lot of people pointed this out to the dipshits in the media who called for companies like Youtube to magically ban every Nazi from their platforms immediately, but they're stupid, so they didn't listen. The result is that tons of innocent content is also being removed. But, content from the likes of CNN, MSNBC, and even Fox News would never be removed in such a fashion, because of their privileged status.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @07:20PM (1 child)
If combat robots gets outlawed, only outlaws will
havebe combat robots.(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 24 2019, @07:55PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @08:36PM
Automated moderation which lacks human validation prior to taking action, or timely effective review after action, is woefully inadequate at the moment. Let's help by crowdsourcing some QA testing :^)
(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.
I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 24 2019, @10:01PM
Last time I checked, the ultimate cruelty to robots was to use a pneumatic flipper to flip one upside down.