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YouTube banning combat robots, mistaking them for animal fights

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2019-08-20 04:36:43 from the YouTube, Google, Censorship, AI-gone-wrong dept.
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Reports are rolling in [reddit.com] 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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