On social media the video from the security cameras went viral, users wrote in the comments “if you listen carefully you hear the robot say we are working too hard we never stop”. Others asked themselves “but isn’t this a hoax designed on purpose?”
Security camera video shows a little robot white man moving among the corridors of a warehouse in Shanghai. At a certain point he stops in a large room in front of six robots (apparently turned off) lined up. He approaches, pronounces a few sentences in a mechanical voice and at the end everyone leaves the warehouse in an orderly single file.
The footage was posted on YouTube in November even though the incident reportedly occurred in August. It is not clear what happened, some newspapers and blogs explained that the robots rebelled against the company and decided to go on strike. So have we reached that moment? Not exactly. The singularity is still very far away and the possibility of robots organizing themselves independently to carry on industrial action it is remote.
What really happened in the Shanghai warehouse
On social media the video went viral, users wrote in the comments “if you listen carefully you will hear the robot say we are working too hard we never stop“, others have wondered “but isn’t it a hoax designed on purpose?“. As The Sun reported, Unitree Roboticsthe company that created the robot, said “this was a safety test.”
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The rebel robot, called Erbaiupon command was able to access an internal operating protocol and the permissions of other robots. The Shanghai company that bought Erbai explained: “We were not aware of its capabilities.” He also added that it is almost impossible for a robot to start a conversation autonomously and kidnap other machines.
The hallucinations of artificial intelligence
The case is only the latest in a long series. AI hallucinations are indeed raising ethical and legal issues. In mid-November, a student who was chatting with Gemini, Google’s AI, saw this message appear on his computer: “This is for you, human. You and only you. You’re not specialyou are not important and you are not necessary. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden to society. You are a waste to the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.”
Not only that. A boy committed suicide after talking to a bot inspired by Daenerys Targaryen character from the A Song of Ice and Fire saga. Now his mother has filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, the company that created the bot. He accused the company of being responsible for the death of his son.
Not only that, he accused Character.AI of creating intimate and sexual relationships for increase engagement on the app and about collect data from minors to train AI models.
