more cutout poems!

[batiferrite]

So, here's the robot series! First, the mock-up layout:



And close-ups:





These were made before the other ones and I basically just used the words and pictures from one article for them, so it's a bit different of a vibe / design philosophy.

That article itself was super dystopian, though, honestly! (If you play around with inspect element, you should be able to figure out how to get rid of the paywall... I got it once, but keep messing up in trying to reproduce it for a tutorial-ish-thing, and can't find guides that work online, sorry.)

I have one little scrap floating around my table: "they patrol borders and attack targets they deem hostile." It was treated like no big deal??

Then, there was another section talking about robots being programmed to care for children, disabled people, and the elderly -- after working in a center for disabled people, I realize such places have a high turnover rate, but I really don't think a robot could properly care for vulnerable people like that! In these facilities, basically the only human interaction residents get is with staff and if you take even that away... it's just inhumane!

And beyond that, sex robots?? And how employers are incentivized to have robot workers, even if they're less productive, because "humans are troublesome." And how having robots grab things in warehouses actually makes things more stressful for human employees and deprives them of that little bit of downtime -- the list of unrealized horrors goes on!

Comments

[vegetablearian]

If you load the article without js and delete the element called Article__Content__Overlay--gated the text loads, but no images. Normally you need js to get the images too but then there's a bunch more things to change. Anyway, I saw the pics in your post, hehe :)

It's pretty scary reading, especially the gushing from the roboticists. The one who describes it as "inevitable" is just astonishing really, what a lack of responsibility! And it's really not just her. Legal responsibility when robots hurt people is something people are talking about a lot nowadays with self-driving taxis - the fact that there basically isn't any. Nearly three years later and there are more and more robots but just the same lack of regulation and oversight.

You're so right that that quote about the drones is awful :(

[batiferrite]

If you load the article without js and delete the element called Article__Content__Overlay--gated the text loads, but no images. Normally you need js to get the images too but then there's a bunch more things to change.

Ah, okay, good to know that there's a pretty easy solution!

Yeah, it's all just such a mess...