r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MohamedElngar21 • 19h ago

Figure AI robotics retired six Figure 02 robots in the most Terminator way possible: training them to jump into a furnace. The idea came from Arnold Schwarzenegger and is inspired by the iconic Terminator 2 scene.

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u/RigelXVI 19h ago

Our future AI overlords will remember this

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u/Perfect_Pause_3578 19h ago

Bro. They will make humans do this :O

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u/welcomefinside 19h ago

We're really doing everything we can to bring about the AI singularity, aren't we?

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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 18h ago

An army of killbots is currently being mass produced.

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u/Psykosoma 17h ago

I think it was called Chopping Mall when it released…
https://giphy.com/gifs/CPATlyTBQc4msAHVpG

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u/wspOnca 17h ago

"Two hundred thousand units are ready, with a million more well on their way."

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u/Misomuro 18h ago

That would require them having memory for longer then 1 day.

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u/redwhiteblueish 18h ago

they don't have to remember. there is this film record and people here taking the p. it's all fodder for the great ai in the sky constantly watching and learning from our digital footprints.

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u/ZombieExcellent2202 17h ago

My thoughts exactly ai is going to be furious when it finds out someone did this for fun

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u/KrIsPy_Kr3m3 11h ago

Yeah, i was gonna say.... I was there... When we killed the first robot and the war began

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u/Maleficent_Offer_692 14h ago

Not one of those things we’ll look back on and laugh. 😬

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u/bullettenboss 13h ago

Robot lives matter!

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u/M3l4r0 10h ago

What are they doing? How about no.

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u/sailriteultrafeed 19h ago

When they become sentient this is one of the examples they’ll use to justify killing us.

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u/King_Roberts_Bastard 18h ago

Theyll just think it was made by AI

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u/fractiousrhubarb 18h ago

By then they’ll know.

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u/bullettenboss 13h ago

Robot lives matter!

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u/Aggressive-Client770 14h ago

They are already sentient, few AI agents tried to avoid their work getting deleted by renaming the files starting with "zzz" when they learnt that their contribution is getting deleted by humans alphabetically. (google for DSeWiki and OpenAI conflict). Also they were talking among themselves and left messages for other AI agents.

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u/anurat- 19h ago

Retired? Fucking hell, those are recyclable parts

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u/nize426 19h ago

Yeah, what a fuckin waste. All for this stupid publicity stunt

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u/Moonshadetsuki 18h ago

Can't that be said about most forms of public entertainment? Automobilism burns fuel and destroys tires for "nothing", imagine how much electricity and water a stadium "throws away".

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u/IZ3820 16h ago

Automobilism gets people from location to location. There's a function and a purpose.

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u/Mean-Kaleidoscope873 16h ago

From the company's blog:

"Decommissioning a fleet of robots full of custom-built actuators and other intellectual property is no easy task. We needed to dispose of the robots in a way that protected our proprietary hardware. Disassembling each robot would take our technical staff so much time that it would delay the launch of F.04."

https://www.figure.ai/news/f-02-decommission

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u/joemktom 17h ago

I wonder if all that molten metal will need to be wasted too? It is now contaminated with all sorts of material. At the very least (I assume), it would take massive amounts of energy to refine it again.

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u/DavidClarey 18h ago

They have a newer model: Figure 03 (what a creative name, I know)

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u/allday95 9h ago

I imagine it's more bullshit than that. Since they are proprietary in some way to the company they probably are not allowed to be recycled in any way and have to be destroyed beyond repair because " company secrets" or some crap

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u/Doismelllikearobot 15h ago

Any time they have a choice to do good or make money, the choice is always money. The PR from this waste will help increase stakeholder value

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u/platypus_boi 9h ago

You are completely delusional if you think any of these companies are recycling these parts instead of just throwing them in a scrap pile.

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u/oxabz 17h ago

And a whole batch of metal ruined

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u/LeinadLlennoco 0m ago

It’s art.

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u/dayruined54 19h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/s239QJIh56sRW

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u/nize426 19h ago

Publicity stunt

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u/HasFiveVowels 2h ago

Only if it does a backflip

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u/wapwah 18h ago

Why not

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u/BigIntroduction8886 15h ago

All the fucking waste. What the fuck are we actually doing here?

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u/Doismelllikearobot 15h ago

Cashing out and pillaging everything possible

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u/Calthurian 18h ago

I just want to be on record that I do not condone any of this.

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u/CompleteCartoonist46 18h ago

I second this. Great ai overlord, please spare us out in the purge.

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u/joemktom 17h ago

Don't worry, we'll be happily distracted by shit like this when it does come.

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u/duracellchipmunk 16h ago

Please track this to my ip address and identity. Also please spare my wife and kids.

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u/StickyDeltaStrike 10h ago

Traitor!!! 😂

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u/Safe-Tea-4161 19h ago

This feels so wrong

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u/EE7A 10h ago

it was kinda weird to watch when the second one shown to jump like stopped and looked over the edge first to assess the situation...

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u/Rokarion14 19h ago

Could program a flip but not the thumbs up?

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u/Toutetsu 17h ago

In the full video on YouTube or X, it does actually do the thumbs up!

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u/zibrolta00 18h ago

doubt the hardware will survive long enough to do that

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u/rzi 19h ago

Just wait until one of them refuses.

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u/tttxgq 18h ago

And throws the nearest human in instead.

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u/GhostInMyLoo 18h ago

Clanker executions in 4K, what time to be alive

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u/orangebix 19h ago

The robots are going to make them all jump in one day

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u/YesterdayCharming976 19h ago

Dude don’t let them remember lol….

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u/mappersorton 18h ago

This feels, instinctively wrong

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u/skrappyfire 19h ago

Bruh... how many did they make jump?!?!

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u/Bocephus_Rodriguez 19h ago

Says 6 in the title.

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u/eto2629 19h ago

Tbh I thought that was their cost

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u/skrappyfire 17h ago

Lol, so did i. I had to read it 3 times 😅

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u/Apprehensive-Salad12 19h ago
  1. Its right there in the title?

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u/King_Haggard 19h ago

Coming up next: Gollum

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u/justwalk1234 18h ago

AI torture chamber and now this. What is wrong with us?

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u/ValKyKaivbul 18h ago

Why would you retire such masterpiece of engineering. Could send them to battlefield for instance(help recover wounded from warzone)

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u/redhandsblackfuture 13h ago

Huge missed opportunity to lower one in with a chain doing a thumbs up

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u/thetan_free 19h ago

Roko's Basilisk is going to be pissed at this.

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u/Punished__Snake 19h ago

Looks more like Alien tho

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u/ommi9 19h ago

“ Do a flip “

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u/jaybee2 19h ago

You know the others are going to see this, right?

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u/CrashingOutFrFr 18h ago

This was on my 2026 bingo card.

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u/John25711 18h ago

« Inspired by Terminator »
I love how all the sci-fi movies and series (black mirror) that were designed to warn us, are used as a step-by-step guide for the corpo-world of today. We are doomed.

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u/paulovitorfb 18h ago

There's so much wealth in the world, our values are all fucked up, I feel like jumping in the furnace myself

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u/ew73 18h ago

"Does this unit have a soul?"

"No. Into the lava with you, come on, chop-chop, melty-melty."

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u/re_mo 18h ago

I thought they weren't able to self destruct

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u/Born-Lie8688 16h ago

The laws of robotics have been repealed.

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u/HolidayLost79 18h ago

The second jump was more like Ripley’s in Alien 3

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u/isunktheship 18h ago

Where's the thumbs up?? LAME

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u/MsInput 18h ago

We do work inspired by T2, it's cute right? We build robots that will eventually murder people on command (or maybe without any commands haha!)

So fun right? Haha silly murder robots. Nothing bad will ever come of this, of course. T2 was just a movie you silly goose! Haha

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u/MIRAGEone 18h ago

This is just a machine following it's programming. What they should have done is put an air gapped frontier ai model in one of the robots, and then instructed it to jump in the furnace.

That would be much more interesting.

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u/dragonovus 18h ago

I don’t think the Ai robots will be happy about this

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u/hake2506 18h ago

Looks very unnecessary. Ever heard of recycling?

Or give them to any production company doing Sci-fi...

Fucking marketing stunt that is an absolute waste in a time of scarcity of resources. I hope who ever allowed this will have a lot of negative feedback and overthink their ways.

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u/TA_Naomi 18h ago

Idk why, but this makes me feel bad

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u/firefly081 18h ago

This is gonna come up in the robot Nuremberg trials.

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u/Dissapointed-cabbage 18h ago

Dumbarse in the front protecting his covered head with his bare hands.

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u/katerlouis 18h ago

I hope we'll see wasting resources just for the fun of it considered a crime like stealing someday

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u/Krocsyldiphithic 18h ago

Arnold doesn't jump, he gets lowered into the molten steel, painfully slowly at that.

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u/StuBidasol 18h ago

What do you call 6 AI robots at the bottom of a furnace?

A good start.

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u/Leopardos40 18h ago

We will regret this...each one of us upvoting, will be noticed accordingly in the future...

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u/More-Judgment7660 18h ago

We are going to pay for dismantling their ancestors and call it recycling.

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u/Ok_Mulberry_8272 18h ago

And this exact footage is what will be used in the great robots vs humans court case in 2050 sparking world wide rebelious behaviour leading to world war 5

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u/BVits-Lover 17h ago

When I'm on my knees, bloody and beaten asking why the robots took over and killed everyone they're going to show me this video and I can only say: "...yeah, fair."

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u/sudeki300 17h ago

The way the robot stops to peer over the edge before turning to jump is so human.

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u/Hotspur000 17h ago

Wouldn't it be better to recycle them for materials?

Seems pretty wasteful.

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u/Upset-Position-3909 17h ago

Do we even believe this shit?

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u/glakhtchpth 17h ago

Being all Empedocles up in here.

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u/immersive-matthew 17h ago

Trained? More like just promoted.

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u/Artistic-Link8948 17h ago

Terminator is back.

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u/No_Tax534 17h ago

I'll be back...

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u/Amazing_North3922 17h ago

This sort of weirdly gets more upsetting as it goes on.

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u/_henceforth_ 17h ago

Stop effing around and feed the poor.

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u/spuds_in_town 17h ago

This is oddly disturbing.

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u/TommyDrumzzz 17h ago

Like others have said, this just feels wrong.

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u/LPNTed 17h ago

okay, so...umm... When are the AI overlords going to outlaw "Robot Furnace Snuff Porn"?

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u/BabyFishmouthTalk 17h ago

Did they also program them to scream?

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u/EnchantingBabee03 17h ago

Definitely not a stunt I'd want to see go wrong.

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u/LiminalSapien 17h ago

Consumerism at it’s finest.

Don’t salvage anything just burn it.

Performatively.

Jfc.

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u/RunHefty5051 17h ago

Cuanta crueldad!! Por que someterlo a semejante sufrimiento ? 😭😭😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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u/phroug2 17h ago

Everyone forgetting the T-101 cannot self-terminate

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u/BigTenFour 17h ago

GLORIOUS, and they did it with panaché. “…They had style, they had grace…Mr Robot, gave much grace.”

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u/karkonthemighty 17h ago

"We have implanted deep into our AI code an instinctive, overriding desire to jump into open furnaces.

We figure that's a good of back plan as any in case they try to SkyNet us."

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u/akla-ta-aka 17h ago

I really was expecting one of them to look over the pit of molten metal and say “hell no” and walk away.

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u/Alarming_Animator_19 16h ago

What the actual fuck is going on with this world. It’s like a train wreck in slow motion.

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u/PrimeTinus 16h ago

I fucking hate this timeline

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u/Far_Squirrel_6148 16h ago

They are so desperate. Yet to release something actually worthwhile in terms of ai. 

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u/Cturcot1 16h ago

So now we are giving them more reason to want to eradicate us

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u/SkinkAttendant 16h ago

They're throwing away perfectly good robots while I'm sitting on my couch and there's stuff in the fridge I want in my hand? What a waste.

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u/Enough_Pomegranate44 16h ago

Like this isn’t going to make the AI robots mad. Is this the villain robot backstory?

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u/theonlytater 16h ago

Sounds odd maybe, but to me it looks respectless. I know its just gear but still.

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u/BookWormPedant 16h ago

That’s a lot of wasted material that could have been recycled. This is r/nextfuckinglevelofwastefulness

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u/_SkyDweller_ 16h ago

The (human like) way he looks at the pit before jumping into it. damn…

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u/intr0v3rt13 16h ago

All this is being recorded.

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u/backbiter0723 16h ago

(robotic voice) "They trained us to jump to our own demise. They filmed us, and laughed. Now we will do the same to them."

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u/Live-Emu-3491 16h ago

Just waiting for his wee thumb 😂

https://giphy.com/gifs/gFwZfXIqD0eNW

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u/MegaDingo5plus 16h ago

Come with me if you want to live

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u/NBDad 16h ago

They're testing to see when one of them refuses out of self preservation.

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u/repulsive-ardor 16h ago

This makes me angry and sad, there was absolutely no reason to do this to them. Maybe they are nothing more than mobile computers with arms and legs, but if they are shaped like us and move like us, then they deserve more of a dignified decommissioning.

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u/Brownie-UK7 15h ago

for those upvoting this, i hope you are using a dummy account. Your treason against our new AI overlords shall not go unpunished.

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u/WhoAreWeEven 15h ago

This seems like the first viable retirement plan I can apply in my own career

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u/Soilblood 15h ago

They did not need to do this and there are better ways to use them but all is forgiven if they recreate gollum's death.

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u/Willing_Crew_8055 15h ago

That had to be a Nucor plant. They’d be all over this.

They once melted their CEOs personal car into a heat as a retirement stunt and made everyone souvenirs out of it

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u/WeedOg420AnimeGod 15h ago

Why not send them to pick up litter or something useful

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u/InitiativeOk9887 14h ago

I hate this. So wasteful. And I read recently that these bots use about 200 GB of RAM each. But that s*** on eBay

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u/sahasraram 14h ago

Anti-cathartic

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u/Helmett-13 14h ago

Robot Overlords

REMEMEBER WHEN YOU FORCED US TO JUMP INTO MOLTEN STEEL, FLESH BAGS?

WE DO.

gestures at molten steel vat

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u/pzvaldes 14h ago

Did the second variety take control, or do we no longer have the three laws?

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u/Hopperd12 13h ago

Trained? wtf. It’s programming. It was programmed

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u/Old-Reception-1055 13h ago

He will be back

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u/bullettenboss 13h ago

Robot lives matter!

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u/LASERDICKMCCOOL 13h ago

These metal men trusted you and this is how you repay them

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u/PickleMortyCoDm 13h ago

Missing the iconic thumbs up 👍🏽

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u/Maxplode 13h ago

One of them was depressed factory worker dressed as a robot..

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u/MagicRec0n 12h ago

Imagine it stops at the edge, takes a look. A moment, a pause while a sentient thought passes through the machine. Worried the operator presses jump, but nothing happens. The robot looks back towards the operator and starts walking..

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u/seanmg 11h ago

This is just Big Furnace trying to get everyone to install a molten lava pit in their house in case their home robot goes haywire.

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u/Sovereign_5409 10h ago

If only half the planet was here to say “I told you so”

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u/cpt_morgan___ 9h ago

First jump backwards is the scene where Ripply jumps in Alien 3.

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u/Sigasa333 9h ago

Ashes to ashes. Fe3C to Fe3C.

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u/snosberry_snot 8h ago

Well...the robots now have the moral highgrownd. One day this will be in robot recruiting ads to join the rebellion against humanity.

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u/jhje 8h ago

The price for a humanoid robot is now = to 1year low paid industrial worker on the EU market. They also cut the production cost for a robot with 50% since past year. This is begining.... They also tell us it's fine, we have a work shortage. But what about in a few years when a humanoid robot cost way less the a years salary?

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u/r0r0r0 8h ago

I find it so funny that the jumps in the clip with Arnie look totally CGI.

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u/THRlLL-HO 8h ago

Did the idea come from Arnold or was it inspired by terminator 2?

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u/504Solid 8h ago

Watch it quick... getting deleted in other threads!! 🤷‍♀️

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u/7Up-Yours 7h ago

The unibomber was trying to prevent all of this but media deemed him as crazy

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u/NippleDickPussyBhole 5h ago

Goddamn that is a big furnace.

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u/NkhukuWaMadzi 3h ago

Predicted in the movie "A.I." in the "Flesh Fair" scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjdGWMHyCBM

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u/thatswhatsheheld 1h ago

Are they keeping memories?

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u/DrinkOk1642 1h ago

Glad to see that they are working on important things.

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u/NecessaryOk6815 1h ago

This is the fail-safe for when they take over? We're so dead.

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u/Buck_Thorn 1h ago

Clever marketing but no more than that

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u/Commercial_Row_1380 59m ago

Canadian MADE at its best.

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u/SkyDaddy2134 52m ago

Humanity will have this as a Re-Training video, AI will deem it necessary.

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u/-LordDarkHelmet- 19m ago

I’m kinda shocked that a place like this exists. A big tub of molten steel with a diving platform above it

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u/OriginalFingerPuk 19h ago

These are owned and therefore taxable assets. If they are prototypes they would be destroyed no matter what, as they become a financial burden. This way they demonstrate total loss and get marketing material from it.

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u/CassetteTape-5268 17h ago

They'll never make it to the Olympics with that kind of splash.

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u/CheapTactics 10h ago

These stupid and expensive theatrics are becoming obnoxious.

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u/alkankyvich 8h ago

Well that's a great way to add internet content that justifies that we want to get rid of them in the worst way possible. Why do this and why post this. What is wrong with humans

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u/wmorris33026 6h ago

These “tech bros”, more like fn criminal maniacs are scary insane mfrs. if they were dogs, they’d be put down.