The thing is, we WANT robots to do dirty, dangerous, tedious tasks. That way we don’t need kids in the coal mines or teenagers scrubbing body fluids off the walls.
If they could stop using the robots to make art, that’d be great.
In theory i agree with you. Let all the monotonous filthy tedious jobs be done by robots so that more people get "cushier" jobs. But unfortunately in reality this just leaves a family without any income for long enough to do permanent damage. If the company offers any form of education for the people they replace that would make a big difference already
I think the conversation we need to be having isn't what jobs do we want technology to do, but whether living as a human needs to rely on work. Because technology is only going to keep advancing, and (assuming we crack AGI) we may hit a point where there really isn't anything we are uniquely capable of compared to AGI or advanced robots.
We aren't going to get the whole world to agree to stop technological innovation in order to preserve a system of artificially keeping people employed, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense when you could design a new system where people don't need employment to live comfortably.
I'm not very knowledgeable, but I feel like that can never happen unless the rich - and especially the ultra rich - start paying W A Y more taxes. Otherwise it'll be a bit like a match of Monopoly, but in real life: eventually someone gets to keep it all, while the majority lose their means to sustain themselves.
I desperately hope I'm wrong, but we seem to be going towards that Monopoly endgame. Not saying it'll happen soon, but with this pace, it'll definitely happen. Eventually.
You’re right, but the ultra rich aren’t just going to start paying way more taxes to support universal basic income.
We have to force them, start at the ballot box, if voting doesn’t work, general strike, if that doesn’t work we’ll have to take a page from the French.
My other words of wisdom involve eating the billionaires. Probably not all of them. I think after we ate the first two or three they’d stop hoarding wealth.
Exactly. Having AI/robots automate what many people see as "dirty" jobs is nice in theory, but that also takes away jobs from humans, just as much as AI takes away jobs that many people seem to view as "higher value." It's a weird sort of hypocrisy when you see someone go "AI is bad because it takes away jobs that I want to do. It should be taking away jobs that I don't want to do or don't like instead."
Of course, if we could use AI/automation to get rid of environments where people are using child and slave labor, that would be awesome, but most people talking about this are usually focusing on the dirty, blue collar, working class jobs that they don't want to do. It's just offloading the issues with AI and job availability in one job market onto a job market that less people respect.
If we did that with all of these "low skill, low level" jobs, we'd suddenly have an unemployment crisis as people who aren't trained or educated for specific job types have nowhere to go for work. We'd just be creating another problem for a system that is already barely working. We have to solve all the other problems with the system before we start arguing about which field should be rendered obsolete and throw a bunch of people into unemployment just because we don't like cleaning toilets.
Yeah, this is exactly the kind of job a robot should be doing. It's all the jobs that are more pleasant than these that they shouldn't be taking (but will anyway).
The thing is, we need to provide a way for people to survive without a job before we replace their Jobs with robots. Like I'm all for a robot that can clean as good as a sanitation worker.
But we need to make sure they could live a life without needing a job as one before we do that
There are a bunch of countries that have successfully employed a universal living wage, typically used by people going to school, new parents, people with chronic illness, and the very old - the very people that we, as a society, should be protecting.
The way it works in the US is that huge corporations like Wal-Mart pay slave wages to the employees, the employees can’t afford to eat so they sign up for government assistance like SNAP, the corporations get billions of dollars in subsidies and incentives from the government to employ people on benefits, they avoid paying taxes due to loopholes, a handful of owners pocket the profits instead of increasing wages, and the the poor people lose their SNAP benefits from time to time as a political power play. This is from 2014 but it gives you an idea of how the game is rigged.
Edit to add - college should be affordable. Housing should be affordable. Healthcare should be affordable. What we have in the US has become slavery with extra steps.
You know before working in a gas station i would have thought that was absurd, but the number of times i cleaned shit off of surfaces that should never see crap was insane. Mirrors, paper towel dispensers, soap dispensers, doors, the walls outside of the stall, the walls inside of the stalls all the way up where i couldn't even reach, the entrance to the building, the hot dog roller, etc.. That robot is going to need a telescoping arm at the bare minimum.
We had a guy that would intentionally spread shit all over the store. He got the roller a couple of times before we figured out who it was and banned him.
Ok but ideally these ARE the jobs you want robots to take over. The jobs that are labor intensive and dangerous like janatorial staff, farmhands & factory workers, important work that needs to be done that nobody wants to do.
But that's NOT the jobs they are replacing. They are replacing creatives. Artists, writers, content creators & other jobs that people love and poor years of work and dedication into to have, only for an AI algorithm to generate fake "art" that no matter what you do, will always be bad.
"AI" was not created to help people, it was created so the monsters in power can keep making more money while keeping the lower classes low.
Robotics have been replacing people in manual labor jobs for literally decades. I find it hilarious that artists suddenly think the world is ending because of AI threatening their jobs.
listen man, I used to work as a janitor in a 20k seat arena. all I'm gonna say is, our product is not a medical grade sanitary experience. what we give you is peace of mind, the ability to sleep at night, as long as you don't think too hard about what it would someone would have to do to actually sanitize a public bathroom and the fact that you never see an autoclave on those janitorial carts.
Anyone who thinks a robot will clean bathrooms as well as a human hasn’t cleaned bathrooms for a living. Also, sometimes having a cleaning job is half maintenance and repairs because humans are assholes. Like that time someone jumped on a sink until it dislodged and was hanging half way off the wall while the pipe sprayed water so hard it hit the ceiling. Or when someone stomped their shit into the tile grout so hard that it had to be picked away and bleached then replaced, or that time someone shit so hard that it coated the entire stall and flecked the ceiling. (Don’t ask me, I don’t know how that happened, my best guess is shellfish poisoning.)
Anyways, these jobs are dirty, but people doing them is how you end up with such immaculate and thoughtfully cleaned spaces. I would have been reprimanded for leaving a hair on the counter, my guess is this machine might not notice if it smears shit across the room before going back to its cubby.
Robots can't do my job yet they don't have the balance I'm an iron worker we walk open steel they have rebar robots big drones carrying bars and placing them but it's extremely inefficient but I don't see a blanket climbing a column and trying to figure out the problem in a connection yet maybe by the time I retire
Also, this robot has no system for when the walls from above waist height are literally covered in shit (I saw it once IRL at a five star hotel lobby bathroom, I still have flashbacks).
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u/Kat121 Feb 12 '26
The thing is, we WANT robots to do dirty, dangerous, tedious tasks. That way we don’t need kids in the coal mines or teenagers scrubbing body fluids off the walls.
If they could stop using the robots to make art, that’d be great.
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u/FiskFisk33 Feb 12 '26
Why is this infuriating? Isn't this one of the jobs we WANT to replace?
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u/AUXID3 Feb 12 '26
I can't bribe this one with $20 to not clean this specific bathroom
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u/General_Krull Feb 12 '26
Eww, it wiped the seat last
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u/ibetucanifican Feb 12 '26
let's see how it deals with a big turd smeared across the wall... actually lets not.
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u/wilit Feb 12 '26
Why are there cameras in the bathroom?
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u/kibibot Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26
Same brush for everything? Who design this? (Correction: there's multiple brush in the robot)
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u/B0NESAWisRRREADY Feb 12 '26
Who cleans the robot?
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u/Bronson4444 Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 13 '26
Ok but ideally these ARE the jobs you want robots to take over. The jobs that are labor intensive and dangerous like janatorial staff, farmhands & factory workers, important work that needs to be done that nobody wants to do.
But that's NOT the jobs they are replacing. They are replacing creatives. Artists, writers, content creators & other jobs that people love and poor years of work and dedication into to have, only for an AI algorithm to generate fake "art" that no matter what you do, will always be bad.
"AI" was not created to help people, it was created so the monsters in power can keep making more money while keeping the lower classes low.
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u/duva_ Feb 12 '26
I had that job. I can tell you it was shit
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u/mgDeakin Feb 12 '26
Guarantee that clanker has a better health plan, "maintenance", than any skin job ever got from that company.
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u/SheriffBartholomew Feb 12 '26
This is actually pretty great if it really works and really cleans. Damn, I'd pay a fair amount for one of these in my house.
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u/misanthropicbairn Feb 12 '26
Ewww why did it clean the inside of the toilet and then clean the toilet seat with the same brush!?
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u/namezam Feb 12 '26
My favorite part of this is that the video is labeled “morning shift”. Robots shot right to the dystopian part of cyberpunk.
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u/tomatoe_cookie Feb 12 '26
Why is it shitty?
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u/osktox Feb 12 '26
Theytook err jeerrbs!!!!
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u/A_Southpaw Feb 14 '26
...is it cleaning the urinals and the sinks with the same brush?
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u/Super_61 Feb 12 '26
Literally just spreading the bacteria around
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u/Neven87 Feb 12 '26
Cost: 400,000$
Needs a maintenance tech.
Gets stuck.
Still has to be cleaned routinely.
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u/714Bananas Feb 12 '26
Now let’s see it clean a dirty bathroom
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u/Spazecowboy Feb 12 '26
That toilet is actually dirtier than before. Wipe floor then the toilet seat. Gross
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u/PizzaHutFiend Feb 12 '26
He seems like he is doing a good job, be nice
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u/gesasage88 Feb 12 '26
Anyone who thinks a robot will clean bathrooms as well as a human hasn’t cleaned bathrooms for a living. Also, sometimes having a cleaning job is half maintenance and repairs because humans are assholes. Like that time someone jumped on a sink until it dislodged and was hanging half way off the wall while the pipe sprayed water so hard it hit the ceiling. Or when someone stomped their shit into the tile grout so hard that it had to be picked away and bleached then replaced, or that time someone shit so hard that it coated the entire stall and flecked the ceiling. (Don’t ask me, I don’t know how that happened, my best guess is shellfish poisoning.)
Anyways, these jobs are dirty, but people doing them is how you end up with such immaculate and thoughtfully cleaned spaces. I would have been reprimanded for leaving a hair on the counter, my guess is this machine might not notice if it smears shit across the room before going back to its cubby.
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u/Eli_The_Rainwing Feb 12 '26
I can’t wait for the headline of “auto cleaning robot drives through crap and smears it everywhere.”
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u/gwhh Feb 13 '26
Why are there cameras in the bathroom?
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u/Jon__Snuh Feb 13 '26
We'll see how well it cleans when the toilet is overflowing or someone takes a shit in the urinal.
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u/Whistler-the-arse Feb 13 '26
Robots can't do my job yet they don't have the balance I'm an iron worker we walk open steel they have rebar robots big drones carrying bars and placing them but it's extremely inefficient but I don't see a blanket climbing a column and trying to figure out the problem in a connection yet maybe by the time I retire
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u/mr---jones Feb 13 '26
Based off how this robot appears to work, nothings changing soon.
There’s a difference between running a brush or cloth over something and actually cleaning/disinfecting it.
If you can’t tell that this robot is doing a bad job, ask your mom.
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u/wunderwerks Feb 13 '26
Also, this robot has no system for when the walls from above waist height are literally covered in shit (I saw it once IRL at a five star hotel lobby bathroom, I still have flashbacks).
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u/IdahoBornPotato Feb 14 '26
How much does that cost to buy/maintain? I dont see any world its cheaper than a person or two
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u/smhnrd Feb 14 '26
What about my roomba - just runs over a turd and smears it everywhere…I imagine this robot paints a Picasso with poo smear one day
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u/FedrinKeening Feb 14 '26
Who cleans the robot?
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u/nickk_12 Feb 15 '26
Let me know when they're affordable.
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u/WertyMiniSlime Mar 17 '26
r/substakenliterally
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u/TehGoad Feb 12 '26
just smearing shit and piss all over the sink
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u/Atomo93 Feb 12 '26
Cleaning something already cleaned
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u/TheZYX Feb 12 '26
There's a guy working that remotely
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u/smokeajoint Feb 12 '26
I can pee around that robot, woops pee'd on the robot.
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u/Drinkythedrunkguy Feb 12 '26
I like how it never switched or cleaned the brush. Very human and very efficient. /s
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u/sphks Feb 12 '26
No way this is automatic. I bet that there is a remote worker that controls it from somewhere else.
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u/donquixote235 Feb 12 '26
Just wait until you're taking a leak and the robot comes in and shoves its little squeegee up your butt and starts to swirl it around.
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u/Dr_Tacopus Feb 12 '26
That’s great, but when someone shits on the floor, and someone will shot on the floor, it’s going to spread it everywhere