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A city council in South Korea said Wednesday their first administrative officer robot was defunct after throwing itself down some stairs, with local media mourning the country's first robot suicide.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/eGxhV

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Woah woah, the officer robot (another real robot) was circling before the incident as if something was wrong?

Could they both have experienced a software bug? I highly doubt the council robot told the officer bot that it was going to commit unlive.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's the same robot. Cop bot suicide.

[–] yuri@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago
[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Idk how I misread that. I was like damn SKs all botted up.

I like my bot mental health crisis mystery headcanon much better.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

That's what you get for training your Korean robot on Korean data

[–] Boris_NotTooBadinoff@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

"administrative robot" is kind of a disrespectful way to refer to Kevin the door guard

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago

Cut down in it's prime :(

Some of us just weren't made to pass butter