YouTube bans robot fighting videos for animal cruelty roughly 10 years too soon
Image: BattleBots
We all knew it would happen someday. Google, which believes in AI so much it rebranded its Google Research division as Google AI, has begun to side with the robots. On Monday, it was reported that Google’s YouTube took down videos of robots fighting each other (think: BattleBots), saying they violated policies against showing displays of animal cruelty.
Here’s one of the videos that had been determined to show animal cruelty:
This video was posted by Jamison Go, who competed in the last season of BattleBots. Yesterday, he says he received the following takedown notice from YouTube for that video and eight others:
According to the YouTube channel Maker’s Muse, Sarah Pohorecky, who also competed in the last season of…
