r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Putrid_Pen3194 • 1d ago
Video AI Robots 'protest' outside Poland ministry demanding AI oversight
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u/Charming_History7423 1d ago
What has the world come to?
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u/AscendedViking7 1d ago
world ended in 2016, lost what sanity we had left entirely and now we are in hell
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u/WalnutSnail 1d ago
May 28th specifically.
Dicks out people, it'll never get any better.
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u/_that___guy 1d ago
"You believe it's the year 2026, when in fact it's closer to 2126."
The Matrix was just off by 27 years.
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u/Nakata1111 20h ago
Holy shit, you might be onto something with that year.
Now that I look back, everything started to go to SHIT after 2016. The economy, global warming, how fast the time flies...
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u/Septem_151 13h ago
It's a meme about the death of Harambee triggering an alternate timeline, but yeah ... 2016 was a big turning point for the worse.
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u/Whatsapokemon 1d ago
Populist illiberalism won in 2016, and we're still recovering.
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u/Teantis 18h ago
In 2012 lech walesa came to Manila and I attended a talk he gave at a bookstore here. He went on this , at the time, incomprehensible tangent about some wanting robots to replace us and the revolutions to come and that robots could never replace us. It was incomprehensible to me at the time and seemed completely out of left field. All the news reports of his time here just kind of skim over it and talk vaguely about "technology" because everyone found it so weird and out of nowhere.
Lech, man, he knew what the fuck was up.
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u/waytoosecret 1d ago edited 1d ago
Arm them with weapons and you'll see legislation change rapidly.
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u/Early-Cicada5320 1d ago
I mean, the people who would have put weapons in their hands would not want legislation to change so they would just keep control of it.
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u/JazzmatazZ4 1d ago
What the hell is this Futurama bullshit??
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u/wytewydow 1d ago
If only. Then I could just head over to the nearest 'let's end this booth' and skip work today.
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u/JuviaSilverwing 1d ago
Just make sure to go early if its near Christmas. There's a line around that time of year.
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u/SistaChans 1d ago
They're called suicide booths.Ā
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u/wytewydow 1d ago
Maybe where you're from. My people call it differently.
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u/SistaChans 1d ago
I'm talking about the ones from Futurama. Maybe you're watching a translation, but in the original English version they're called suicide booths.Ā
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u/wytewydow 23h ago
You're missing the point of not calling it by its name. Im avoiding reddit cares notifications that pop up when people report the word you keep using.
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u/SistaChans 23h ago
Okay, so the reddit cares bot is something that pops up when people want to troll you, not for just casually saying that word. Next time you get one of those, block the bot and never get one again. I've said it twice now and I'm still here. And secondly stop worrying about saying "bad" words on the internet. Self censorship is the stupidest part of the modern Internet.Ā
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u/strangerbuttrue 1d ago
Like everything else lately it seems, this is probably a marketing stunt for the robots trying to go viral.
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u/PM_ME_FLUFFY_DOGS 22h ago edited 22h ago
Im not so sure, what i could find feels more like a type of art demonstration. They want stronger worker protections and safe guard against humans getting replaced by robots, so they replaced the humans protestors. More like something to make people uncomfortable and potentially act it seems.Ā Ā
Even if it is a marketing stunt im still not so sure robotics companies want their robots doing bad things, and its not like Poland is really the center of anything ai either.
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u/dardar7161 22h ago
And then later some naked ladies came and protested strip clubs.
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u/Linkmolgera2 1d ago
ill say it i wish it was the late 90s again i want to escape from this bs
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u/Hegiman 1d ago
Iāll take 1996 please
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u/Septem_151 12h ago
Congratulations, it is now 1996 and you are a gay black man living in the rural south.
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u/1stUserEver 1d ago
Could have been time machines, instead weād get this crap.
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u/Life_Parsley504 23h ago
you'd rather be accused of being a minority, most likely be poor and exploited by the same people that are in power now, all while dealing with the same fear of war and fascism/nazism coming back?
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u/MadJedfox 1d ago edited 15h ago
90s, but with 2010/2020s benefits. The 1990s were a terrible time in the countries of the former Soviet bloc.
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u/hjadams123 1d ago
Don't believe them, this is all a PR stunt.
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u/Evening-Turnip8407 1d ago
I guess yea, but presumably form a robotics company that would like AI oversight regulations.
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u/Dirty_Dragons 1d ago
I'm pretty sure you're correct.
It's crazy that so many people don't understand the difference between AI and robotics.
AI is the software.
Robots are the hardware.
This company is probably terrified of their robots being used by AI to do bad things.
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u/TheeCatFather 1d ago
More likely that they want to "regulate themselves in". Aka create regulatory barriers that make it harder for new competitors to enter the market.Ā
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u/Particular_Wear_6960 1d ago edited 1d ago
There are multiple researchers within OpenAI and Anthropic that have left the company's who are trying to demand regulation. Geoffrey Hinton himself left Google to speak out about the dangers we face. This company is protesting AI anyways, seems if they were trying to cut off competitors they would be protesting for robotics regulations.
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u/LuinSen2 1d ago
Not PR exactly but just big companies campaigning for the legislators to set up barriers of entry for new small competing companies.
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u/polygraph-net 1d ago
If anyone's wondering, these robots are following their programming and have no consciousness, awareness, or actual intelligence like we do. They aren't protesting. You can think of it like getting your dogs to stand outside the ministry "protesting", except your dogs are more intelligent and are conscious.
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u/Dirty_Dragons 23h ago
Exactly, despite the title saying AI robots, there is no AI in these robots.
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u/coding_guy_ 22h ago
Not to be pedantic but there is AI in the control algorithms. Whether a control algorithm is conscious Iād probably say no but there js AI in them.
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u/Dirty_Dragons 21h ago
What's in those robots isn't even on the same level as LLM which is what most people call AI and that isn't true AI yet.
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u/LightspeedBalloon 19h ago
The robot hardware company is protesting. They would like AI regulations. The robots are proxies.
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u/neo4025 1d ago
Donāt tell the French š«š· theyāll be protesting every day once they realise they donāt have to do it In person
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u/BackToNormalForNow 19h ago
Are you kidding? We love to protest, having someone else do it isnāt as great as you think
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u/neo4025 19h ago
My sincere apology. I underestimated your commitment to protest. I owe you one high viz.
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u/BackToNormalForNow 19h ago
We appreciate it. Now if youāll excuse me, Iām gonna go back to planning next weekās blockade of state-owned buildings, we still got the public transportation to plan overā¦
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u/insanitazer 1d ago
On the French market, they'll be sold with a preinstalled 'throw trash bin' mod.
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u/Jakim_Sareb 1d ago
Skynet is not yet here.
Wait a couple of hours till batteries die
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u/Additional_Rub_8980 1d ago
Even robots go protest, but not russians
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u/jonnyvegashey 1d ago
Straight out of āwhat will the world look like in the futureā scenario we heard decades ago.
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u/tf2mann_ 18h ago
Apparently life in Poland is bad enough that some clankers don't want to steal human's lives and work
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u/Crystalzye 21h ago
Who the fuck put them there??? It's not as if they got there on their own.
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u/Icy_Conference8556 1d ago
Oh, I thought they were protesting outside a Polish government office to get their immigration cases processed faster. iykyk
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u/Predatorial-Prod 1d ago
I still haven't seen one of these walking ones in person yet, but im seeing videos of them all over the world
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u/auchinleck917 1d ago
This is a complete aside, but regarding Matrix, he era of the Second Renaissance, the fact that there were humans who sympathized with robots, yet no robots who sympathized with humans, seems to suggest that the robots of that time were still immature.
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u/stilgarpl 1d ago
Like in that episode of Futurama where Bender was leading a protest against Bender!
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u/James_Proudfoot 1d ago
I'm learning polish robots sound like Rodians from knights of the old republic
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u/jereporte 1d ago
isn't "Robot" the polish word for "Worker" ?
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u/memematron 23h ago
No. Worker is "Pracownik". "Robota" means place of work e.g. "Gdzie jest twoja robota?" - "Where is your work?", or it can mean the verb work e.g. "Dobra robota!" - "Good work!". "Robot" is what it means in English - mechatronic system often used to replace manual handling tasks
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u/BrahmariusLeManco 22h ago
This is a tactic being deployed in the US and Europe by the current big AI companies to get regularion in place while they are in a position to shape said regulations and even control them, to make their lives easier and more profitable while boxing competition out.Ā Its supposef to look noble and good, but its smoke and mirrors to disguise their pursuit to control the markets and future of AI themselves with as little oversight as possible.
If regulation was so importyto them, they'd self regulate.Ā This is all performative.
Regulation is needed, yes, but not with them deciding what that looks like.
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u/Unlikely-Aside-6078 22h ago
Am I the only one who finds the robot dogs really cute? Like yeah, they're inevitably gonna be used against at some point, but they just look like good little steel and aluminum boys. Same appeal as one of those rex cats imo. I'd take in an escapee.
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u/HardTale_Sans 21h ago
Poland is Europe's USA in terms of politicsĀ
I literally just heard about a guy shooting protestants with paint gun
THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAND
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u/EntilZar 1d ago
Same energy as those 5yo kids holding Anti GMO crops signs or political demands with their Parents standing slightly off-camera
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u/taytrapDerehw 1d ago
Can someone translate what they're chanting?
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u/link113gAmin 1d ago
It says it at the start of the video... "Don't wait, regulate."
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u/hey_Hey_I_saveD_me 1d ago
They also chant "We want rules, we want law" (Chcemy zasad, chcemy prawa)
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u/Red_dit_Sucks_Ass_ 1d ago
They need Franceās tactics: weeks/months worth of strikes while throwing garbage poop fire at parliament buildings.
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u/Visual-Scarcity2120 1d ago
Seems like something i played once.... what was that... Ah yes, fucking detroit becomes human.
Hoping they don't choose the nuclear option
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u/PanzerWeeb_03 1d ago
As a French person, Iām torn between weeping for joy at the sight of these fellow protesters and feeling disgusted that those damn robots are going to steal even our strikes.
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u/LexHanley 1d ago
Swap one of those flags for an unloaded rifle and you'd probably get the point across faster
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u/Minimum-Sleep-3916 23h ago
Weāre literally living through the animatrix: the second renaissance vol. 1 . The parallels are striking. Go watch it if you havenāt.
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u/scarabic 23h ago
Most brilliant protest Iāve seen in a while. This took some doing. And it was well worth doing. Bravo to whoever pulled it together.
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u/Sweaty-Willingness27 23h ago
"Technically, they're not robots. 'Robot' comes from the Czech word which means 'slave'. They are not slaves."
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u/TheCrafter1205 23h ago
Are the āprotestersā advocating for or against AI oversight? I couldnāt quite tell based on the title. If itās for oversight, the I think itās clever, almost like theyāre trying to show what world lack of oversight could cause.
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u/Bleezy79 23h ago
Damn, this took me right into a sci-fi movie. Robots protesting is not something I thought I'd see in my lifetime lol
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u/Shadow_WolfOps 22h ago
Great, clanker rally, im calling the clones. Though i do agree we need to regulate now
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u/Smellfish360 22h ago
i always like how they make robots sound robot like. We have perfectly fine speakers and text to speech, i'm pretty sure fluent speech is possible.
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u/Practical_Delay_2158 20h ago
Next Thing you know they will demand rights and want to to be presidents
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u/soulwolf1 17h ago
If you're going to do a PR move, at least make an effort for the shit to be believable.
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u/DurrutiDuck91 13h ago
Okay, Iāve changed my mind. Iāve always resented the idea of both but as long as they on our sideā¦ Iām Team Robot all the way.
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u/TurnoverIcy1998 12h ago
honestly a bad idea for a protest, like what is the underlying message? that if we dont regulate ai they will destroy humanity? if so then having a bunch of unregulated ai doing exactly what their human users want them to do is not a great way to send that message. and just to be clear i agree with the message, i just think this is a bad way to send it.
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u/l_lovef_f 10h ago
They will run out of battery eventually. Don't let them use the outlets -> problem solved.
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u/Brilliant-Acadia7714 6h ago
Why do man invent so much we canāt even handel, and wind up destroying our selfās .
For fun ? For money? . Is it just me seeing it this way ? We invent out also of curiosity I expect, still remember what did the cat in.
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u/ghesak 6h ago
Is it me or the joke is getting lost on people in these comments?
āThese are not real AIs with agency, you knowā noooo shit Sherlock?
r/swoooosh vibes
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u/IIIIChopSueyIIII 5h ago
Sadly there is extremely much money involved in AI so politicians wont do anything against it. Even tho it would be beneficial for literally everyone
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u/chiqu3n 1d ago
Oh man, this is going to infuriate AI when it wakes up