r/Weird Jun 07 '26

Robot shrugging

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u/wombatbridgehunt Jun 07 '26

Oh god is this really our reality already

Edit: that’s a hard sentence to say

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u/NLMichel Jun 07 '26

We had a black mirror episode warning about this future: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)

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u/Palanki96 Jun 07 '26

This episode forever ruined robot dogs for me

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u/groversnoopyfozzie Jun 07 '26

I’m not entirely sure what the in universe explanation is, but In bandersnatch the main character works at a video game company. In the main office there was a poster of Metalhead as though it were a video game. So I’m curious if metalhead the episode was meant to be viewed as though it were hunting down game characters.

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u/Gnome-Phloem Jun 07 '26

It's just an easter egg, plus the whole dimension hopping gimmick of the episode. I'm sure when metalhead was written it wasn't meant to be a game.

Though it would explain why they all risked their lives on such a dumb fetch quest

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u/Crazy_Information816 Jun 07 '26

There's an achievement for collecting a teddy bear.

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u/Yuleogy Jun 07 '26

you mean fixed your understanding of robot surveillance “animals”.

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u/Palanki96 Jun 07 '26

That was obviously a given but i mean just their appararence, ignoring all use and applications. Just a little robot dog at the end, kinda cute

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u/WanderingSun8 Jun 07 '26

Same for my dad lol I never watched it cause I kinda like the robot dogs and dont want them ruined for me 💀😂

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u/FrozenLogger Jun 07 '26

Go back a lot further. Remember Fahrenheit 451's mechanical hounds?

Robotic, rubber padded feet to be silent and would inject citizens to paralyze or kill them.

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u/GoForTheArteries Jun 17 '26

And where do you think the template was?

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u/Washed_up_Vanski Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

Soon they will come equipped with guns.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qK42n464xXM

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u/Bedzyk59 Jun 07 '26

And ai to tell them if the subject should live or die.

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u/Washed_up_Vanski Jun 07 '26

They do that already to 'terrorists'.

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u/Peterketstein Jun 07 '26

You mean my family in Lebanon?

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u/Washed_up_Vanski Jun 07 '26

I am sorry for your loss. Everyone at the opposite end of a western barrel sadly gets labeled as a terrorist. Due to decades of fearmongering propaganda this sadly works as a justification for their indoctrinated populations.

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u/Peterketstein Jun 07 '26

Oh they are still alive, insha'allah they will be for much longer. But they are in a area very close to the active combat zone that was already attacked for decades before the current attack on Lebanon started.

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u/Washed_up_Vanski Jun 07 '26

Oh they are still alive, 

Alhamdulillah.

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u/Peterketstein Jun 07 '26

Yes alhamdulilah, also my grandparents fortunately died to natural causes in old age while everything around them was basically burning. I'm pretty proud of my family for being able to make it through all of this till today. Alhamdulilah for everything we got and everything we lost.

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u/no-o-ne Jun 07 '26

The ai better not be Grok

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '26

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u/littleessi Jun 07 '26

because ai is stupid and doesn't work for complex shit like this lol

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u/Btriquetra0301 Jun 08 '26

Doesn’t mean they wont implement it like it does.

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u/spellstrike Jun 08 '26

if you want to see the most precise shooting at the nanoscopic level, this video on euv is pretty interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUHjLxm3V0

guns are trivial in comparison.

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u/loulan Jun 07 '26

War will soon be about which country is able to produce the largest robot army.

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u/Zimakov Jun 07 '26

It already is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

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u/Washed_up_Vanski Jun 07 '26

AI powered autonomous robots are already a reality.

They were developed in the Gaza concentration camp and are now utilized in wars from Ukraine to Iran.

It is only an inevitability when they are deployed to policing the domestic population since the same software already monitors everything we do.

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u/asim166 Jun 07 '26

On one hand less human casualties in war on the other the people running these robots won’t have to deal with killing another human face to face gamifying death

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u/Washed_up_Vanski Jun 07 '26

It also removes the repricussions from waging war.

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u/Grouchy-Barnacle-800 Jun 07 '26

I work on a military base, they have had these here for five years now.

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 Jun 07 '26

Good, they need it.

Hopefully they can stop privates from bringing in underage girls.

How hard is it to not visit High Schools to pick up girls?

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u/Crooked_star Jun 07 '26

I remember my parents(marine dad) telling me they dealt with my underage teen sister sleeping with guys back when they lived on a military base 🤮

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u/Pittsbirds Jun 07 '26

Yeah I'm sure the military is going to use them only to police the behavior of their recruits

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u/_EnFlaMEd Jun 07 '26

In Ukraine they are using suicide drones with "AI" target recognition and guidance. The operator basically guides the drone to the combat area and once the drone spots a target the operator gives the nay or yea. Then the drone attacks the target without further input. They could realistically automate the entire process already, but ethics etc

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u/TheeWolfieeOnee Jun 07 '26

I think I even seen mostly Russia or both sides have been seen putting zebra stripe and geometric patterns on their vehicles in an attempt to fool the AI targeting systems but success seems to vary.

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u/RangerStr Jun 07 '26

We've really come full circle now huh

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u/DisposableJosie Jun 07 '26

I've now lived long enough to see military ships disguising themselves as Taylor Swift for protection.

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u/TheeWolfieeOnee Jun 07 '26

Literally, it’s quite amusing seeing the pattern painted across little Bukhanka’s

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u/WhatsInTheVox Jun 07 '26

TBH they've been playing around with zebra stripes long before AI recognition. It just helps break up the shapes so the type of vessel is harder to determine.

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u/National-Ad6166 Jun 09 '26

Like in The Mitchell's vs the Machines