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Opinion: robots with human likeness should be outlawed (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/technology@slrpnk.net

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Currently, talking to a face is the ultimate guarantee that you are communicating with a human (and on a subconscious level makes you try to relate, empathise, etc.). If humanoid robot technology eventually surpasses the Uncanny Valley, discovering that I'm talking to a humanoid with an LLM and that my intuitions had been betrayed would undermine the instinctive trust I give to the other party when I see a human face. This would degrade my social interactions across the board, because I'd live in constant suspicion that the humans I was talking to weren't actually human.

It is for this reason I think it should be the law that humanoid robots must be clearly differentiated from humans. Or at least that people should have the right to opt out from encountering realistic-looking humanoids.

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yep. But then I don't get why there are efforts to make a realistic robotic human face.

(Edit: ok I do understand one reason – just as a challenge and to prove it's possible, but I'm not sure that justifies doing it given the consequences)