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YouTube Banning Combat Robots, Mistaking Them for Animal Fights

posted by martyb on Saturday August 24 2019, @02:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the Rock-'Em-Sock-'Em-Robots dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

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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  • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Saturday August 24 2019, @04:03PM

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Saturday August 24 2019, @04:03PM (#884796)

    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?

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