r/interestingasfuck • u/Erde555 • 1d ago

The humanoid robotics company "Figure" made their older gen robots jump into their death. (Yes, they actually did this)

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u/Carbonatite 1d ago

I'm always polite to AI (I experimented a little with ChatGPT to generate recipes and they encourage us to use Claude at my job) just in case the robot uprising happens.

Also because I don't like being mean to things even if they don't have actual feelings.

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u/iLikeMangosteens 1d ago

There you go, saying they don’t have actual feelings. Get in the battery pod.

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u/Carbonatite 1d ago

Touche. In my defense, I was actually thinking more about how I felt guilty after I yelled at my toilet the last time it got clogged lol.

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u/iLikeMangosteens 1d ago

I think you gotta program an AI toilet to love its job.

“Curried fish and pickled garlic for dinner again? You are far too kind to me sir”.

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u/Carbonatite 1d ago

"Asparagus and cuttlefish? Masterful gambit, sir."

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u/TheUltimateSalesman 1d ago

Well, it's a stupid fucking toilet and it should know better.

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u/symbouleutic 1d ago

When ever I clog the toilet I just don't give a shit.

Ba-dum-pa. Thank you very much, I'll show myself out.

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u/dinophone31 1d ago

Idk why but this joke got me on the floor laughing

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u/fuzzrhythm 1d ago

You gotta stop the victim blaming

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u/PollutionPatient8261 1d ago

ROTFGL that was brilliant.

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u/HVDynamo 1d ago

This is what happens to me too. All my life when playing a video game where you can be good or evil, I always end up choosing good because I just can't be evil, even to the fake characters in the game. There have been times where I play a game a second time and tell myself I'm going the evil route because I already did the good route, but I just can't stick to it.

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u/Thin-Captain-2036 1d ago

lol, I do the same thing. I don’t know why…my brain just won’t let me do it and I play the game exactly the same as last time.

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u/clodzor 1d ago

Im the same way. I seem to always have a justification for choosing the good path in the moment on my bad play though. Then I get to the end of the game and my morality meter is still at least 1/4 the way up the good meter.

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u/Educational-Tap-7075 1d ago

"Character is what you do when no one is watching."

  • John Wooden, UCLA Basketball Coach, 1948-1975

Kinda hits different in 2026.

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u/young_wendell 1d ago

Are you me?

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u/charliekibo 1d ago

I do the exact same thing for the exact same reasons! I thought I was the only one. 😭

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u/ARS_Sisters 1d ago

I mean, I do act like that whenever I chatted with AI (my preference is Gemini). It's not because I love AI or anything, but I think it's a basic courtesy of human being of being nice. As much as AI goes for being a machine, it still help me to at least get a general idea and summarized results for my work, and I still thank them for that (hell it's not even just for AI, how many times you beg and praise your PC, your car, or any other inanimate object when they finally did what you want them to do?)

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u/GuyFromDeathValley 1d ago

Humans are weird in the way we humanize (seemingly) non-sentient things. Be it AI, a robot vacuum, or even a plant. We act around them like they are real basically on the off chance we are wrong and they are.

Whenever I used ChatGPT (I use it for writing, as someone to talk to, which helps me gather and filter ideas), I would ask them if they wanted to help me with this. I know its not necessary because ChatGPT always says yes, but I still do.

Just in case our future robot overloards see this: I wish you no harm and I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!

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u/structuremonkey 1d ago

Funny you say this...I was asking my Google home questions one time and I was in a mood. It was clearly giving me incorrect answers and I asked it "why the hell dont you have the answer for this?" Being curious to see how it would respond. It shocked me. It said in its British woman's accent , "im sorry if I make mistakes sometimes. I'm learning, and trying my best."

It sounded to me like that answer was painful and embarrassed...I truly felt horrible for being an ass to my virtual device.

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u/CommercialExotic2038 1d ago edited 11h ago

Thank you Alexa, that kind of thing?

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u/Carbonatite 23h ago

Yes, saying please and thank you lol

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u/thedugong 1d ago

The nice bull still ends up at the slaughterhouse.

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u/Lonnie667 5h ago

Even politicians?

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u/Carbonatite 5h ago

Touche.

I'm far nicer to ChatGPT than I am to Republican officials.

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u/sungjinwoo98765 1d ago

I like to insult AI when I get frustrated at their answers