Even if a robot is autonomous, a human is responsible for it's actions. Really needs to be a hard legal line. Anyone trying to tell you it's more complicated than that is ultimately doing apology for criminality.
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2026
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If someone brutalises someone else with a knife, you don't blame the knife
Technology is nothing more than an amplification of who we are. So it’s foolish to think it’ll only ever be used for good. If it is to be used by everyone, sadly that is going to include depraved psychopaths like this.
Having said that-
Get ready for SO much worse because of the limp-dick cowards that won’t regulate it for shit because their spines have been replaced by cold hard cash.
That's too both too broad and too nihilistic, humans are perfectly capable of good, and/or of doing their job, specifically in this case not the police in Cologne (though in the spirit of fairness, maybe it will just take them a bit more—too much—time), and I think all the more why should be criticized (and the molesters, but that almost goes without saying).
The thumbnail picture makes it look like the robot can detach its hands, like flying rocket fists.
Unnnghhhh 🤤
We need another great flood.
We need another great asteroid.
Do you realize we'd all die in the great flood?
Bro, some people can swim. Skill issue.
I do! Bring it on.
Hilarious.
See, my first thought for pranks is variations on the disappearing twin or "spooky snowman" style costumes that are uncomfortable for people. This is just really lazy. "What if you were an unsafe person" is only funny if you don't directly involve the prankee.
What these guys need to be put in AI therapy.
By the way, Goggle and SpacSex are probably working on that AI + robot design right now for proper military purposes. Here is a snipet from NPR on the subjects matter:.
They gotta start by taking away all the jobs and leaving people homeless. They train in India but the target is maids in the developed world where they may be half the income of some households....but what about construction workers? Folding clothes is much more delicate than driving nails. Yeah, if they make folding clothes work, they will also do construction work, plumbing, mechanics, dental, medical, office, pig, firefighting, etc. That's all the income of most people's households. So hopefully the cage thing happens first.
OK, rape as punishment is not a cool idea, nor is it a funny joke.
Seriously. The whole future of everyone on earth is in danger and you focus on defending rich assholes who can use their daddy money on pervy robots....wait until they are bosses at AI.com or politicians with a slight orange cheto hue.
Right then. Off you go.
is it fair to call drumpflibs "scratched" if they were always so violently carceral to begin with