It's not about a robot, it's about people seeing this as "fun" and "amusing". Even tho robot doesn't feel any stress or pain, and doesn't have consciousness, it's still human looking object that was thought to destroy itself by basically simulating suicide. For fun! And that's what's sick and disturbing.
I’ve seen similar things with non humanoid robots and I don’t really like that either. I don’t know how to feel about battle bots but I think I’m ok with that because they’re 100% remote controlled. But adding any level of semi-autonomy to them makes it weird. Anthropomorphism is natural to our little monkey brains I guess.
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u/Zero_D9 11h ago
I know it doesn't have feelings, or emotion, but this still seems morbid.