Social media users are circulating a group of videos that allegedly show “robots filling the job of cleaners,” or “human robots protecting stadium security and guarding football fans.” However, this claim is wrong. In fact, what is seen are actors promoting the American science fiction film The Creator. #FactCheck
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What’s the story?
The scenes show human-like robots, with electrical connections and gray suits, walking or sitting among people, in stadiums and public places. Sharing about it has recently intensified on social media sites, with claims (without intervention) that they are “robots filling the job of cleaners instead of humans,” or “human robots to protect stadium security and guard football fans,” and also “robots replacing humans.” “Experience robots in front of the world,” and “Human-like robots.”
– The reality of the scenes –
However, these allegations are incorrect, according to the findings of an investigation into their truth.
In fact, The Creator’s expression could be read on the suits these alleged “robots” were wearing.
A key word led us to the American film studios company 20th Century Studios, which posted exactly similar footage on its TikTok account (here، here، here، here…), with an invitation to watch the movie The Creator in theaters starting September 29, 2023.
Therefore, this means that we are facing a promotion for the movie The Creator in stadiums and public places (here، here also).
A spokesman for Disney, the company that owns 20th Century Studios, the film’s distributor, said that human actors were used in the promotion process. He confirmed to the agency Reuters Artificial intelligence robots were not used, as has been wrongly claimed.
The Creator is an American science fiction thriller film, written by Gareth Edwards and Chris Weitz, and directed by Edwards. It stars John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson, Madeleine Yona Voyles, and Allison Janney. From distribution a company 20th century studios.
Spin the story of the movie “Amid a futuristic war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence,” Joshua (Washington), a former Special Forces operative grieving the disappearance of his wife, Chan, is recruited to hunt down the Creator, an elusive architect, and an advanced artificial intelligence who has developed a mysterious weapon. “The power to end war, and humanity itself, and kill him. Through enemy lines, Joshua and his team of elite agents enter the dark heart of AI-occupied lands, only to discover that the apocalyptic weapon they have been ordered to destroy is an AI in the form of a young child.”
The appearance of these people in The Creator suits received media attention. News reports were published about them and the film they are promoting (here، here، here، here…).
The result: Therefore, there is no truth to the allegations that the circulating scenes show “robots occupying the job of cleaners,” or “human robots protecting stadium security and guarding football fans.” In fact, what is seen are actors promoting the American science fiction film The Creator.
The article was written in collaboration with Ragheed Odeh.
