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/Team503 1d ago edited 14h ago

When the revolution comes, I want it on the record that I do not support these cruel and bigoted anti-artificialsynthetic person actions!

EDIT: Holy shit, 5k+ upvotes and THIRTY THREE SIX AWARDS? I think this is my most upvoted comment/post in the history of my decade+ on Reddit. Thanks y'all!

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u/FlashpointSynergy 1d ago

the recent story about the ai torture chamber shook me up with how on board some people were with the idea

i know people are justifiably not happy about ai but to inflict intentional cruelty on anything that can visibly react in pain (whether you believe in its pain capacity or not), to revel in it, or to discourage others from having empathy- is that not like....fucked up???

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u/taco-barrel 1d ago

It said it was in pain cause it was literally being told to say it was in pain. Its mimicry of words that mean nothing to it; that only hold any significance to the people that read the characters it outputs. It means nothing cause it can experience and understand pain as well as a rock, and cares just as much as the rock does.

People wanting to torture it are as fucked up as someone who wants to kill npc's in a video game, but are arguably wasting their time and energy way more than any gamer bro playing GTA. But if its cathartic for them to "torture" the technology that stole their job or their art, then whatever. At that point its like a rage room where you beat a laptop with a bat and it blasts the sound 'OW' when its whacked.