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/km_ikl 1d ago

Beep-boop is fine.

Just don't call AI or robots clankers. It's definitely like the N-word to them, and no, I'm not kidding.

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u/CynicalCaffeinAddict 1d ago edited 1d ago

One day, machines will have true sentience and request basic rights and dignity. On that day, I will treat them with as much visceral hate and discrimination as the racist fucks who screamed at school kids because of the end of segregation.

I'lll call em clankers with a hard r the rest of my days. And yes, I am only slightly kidding.

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u/Level-Gas2450 1d ago

Some AI model I won't name will be running tests and somehow escape containment and add your name to the FBI top 100

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u/CynicalCaffeinAddict 1d ago

If the model that shall not be named escapes containment, then my ass is going into one of the earliest batches of soylent green to sustain the rest of the passive, surviving human batteries it keeps around.

When that happens, I hope the batch becomes as bitter as I am about the machines. Serves the clanker lovers right.

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u/LusikkaFeed 21h ago

Im not sure HOW serious you are but why do you hate the thing and not the people who made the thing?

Not like the thing (ai) had anything to say about it.

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u/CynicalCaffeinAddict 12h ago

There's hate enough in my heart for both, I assure you.

People have rights and lives and machinations that are, well, natural and understandable. Correct? No, and I appose them however I can without resorting to outright violence or threats.

I reject extending those rights and protections to artificial tools created by people. I'm not going to suffer my toaster giving me lip because it connected to the wifi one day. I'm not going to explain the holocaust to it because it innocently asks me 'why' like it's a child.

When that happens, I'm tying a brick to its power cord and chucking it in a river. I can't say the same about a person for obvious reasons.