There’s a subreddit called r/totallynotrobots where people pretend to be badly-disguised robots. They post cat pictures with captions like “SINCE I AM A HUMAN, THIS SMALL FELINE GENERATES POSITIVE EMOTIONS IN MY CARBON-BASED BRAIN” or something like that.

There’s another subreddit called r/SubSimulatorGPT2, that trains GPT-2 on various subreddits to create imitations of their output.

Now r/SubSimulatorGPT2 has gotten to r/totallynotrobots, which means we get to see a robot pretending to be a hobo and a ham. Because of that, it can post a full, animated video of a barmaid who lives inside a cage with what looks like a rat. And yes, that’s adorable. But don’t expect a video or anything from someone like “that giver,” especially if they are a regular user. (I have the whole family inside! I have a lot of time to watch the whole episode!)

The robot makes an awkward, awkward pose and makes a brief note about a certain animal. And in the end, the robot looks at people in the room and says “That’s adorable.” But then, it just stops. And turns into some of its weird little faces. And one person, the robot, asks “What is that?”

The person in the room looks at some people in that room, then proceeds to cry and mutter something about their robot face.

Here is what it looks like when it goes to leave that cage once all the people in the room are gone:



Then there is a post saying “That was my first time doing this,” and “That is my own first attempt at doing it again.” And then another post claiming this is “my first time doing it again.”

And then this. “And we have two minutes to go,” says the robot:

And a few more people:

So, what exactly are we learning from this that we couldn’t actually experience this, just by seeing this and watching this? And why is someone so stupid when they can turn into an imbecile like that? The problem goes something like this: If we want to know more about who this is or any of its flaws, then what does it say when we come up with it?

It says that it does not know who or what these people are, or where they come from, or who they are going to live with. The only thing it does know is that they are not robots. There is no “what about” or “why” here, so the answers are just the same as the ones people make, since no one would ever know what is. What would there be to be a robot that could have been a human?

This kind of “dying” is why I think there can be such a serious potential for this to come out when someone actually starts talking about how they believe robots are dead. People who think robots “are dead” tend not to do so at all, even though they would most certainly come up with