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Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by IHLayman on Saturday August 10, 2019 @08:44AM (#20661740)
“If it's a robot we _should_ be equally outraged, but it's actually not possible unless the robot is _designed_ to be racist.”

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch... only took 24 hours.

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Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by RobertRoberts on Sunday August 11, 2019 @03:09PM (#20669815)
They didn't intend for it to be racist, that is the difference.

A few racist cops, or all racist robots, that is our choices, and it looks like we will be getting robots because of the outrage over a few people.

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