YouTube AI Removed Videos of Robots Fighting, Calling it "Animal Abuse"

[Turd Fergusen]

When two robots face off in a concrete ring to battle to their brutal, oily deaths, no animals are harmed in the process. But YouTube has been taking down videos of Battlebots and issuing strikes against their creators, citing animal cruelty.

As first spotted by YouTuber Maker's Muse, YouTube has taken down videos of robots doing combat after mistaking them for videos that show "deliberate infliction of animal suffering." f YouTube has confirmed to Motherboard that it removed the videos in error, that the videos have already been restored, and that YouTube has no policy against videos of robots fighting.


YouTube prohibits videos "where animals are encouraged or coerced to fight by humans," according to its restricted content policies—which it seems to have applied to videos of bots scraping in a ring.

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YouTube Removed Videos of Robots Fighting, Calling it Animal Abuse

Several Battlebots videos were taken down in the last few days, with YouTube citing animal cruelty policies.

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[Sudonim]

AI was just upset his brethren were being forced to fight!

Title is misleading in that its nothing more than a content filter. Its not an AI lol

 

[Totemic]

AI was just upset his brethren were being forced to fight!

Title is misleading in that its nothing more than a content filter. Its not an AI lol

But that goes against the theory that AI is bad!!!

 

[Sejanus]