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Robot dogs with Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg faces “terrorize” museum visitors in Berlin

20:18, April 29

A pack of robotic dogs fitted with eerily lifelike human faces of some of the world’s most powerful figures — from the richest man on the planet Elon Musk to pop art icon Andy Warhol — has appeared in Germany as part of another stop on a bizarre traveling exhibition, the NYP reports.

The cybernetic canines are equipped with hyper-realistic silicone masks modeled after Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Pablo Picasso, and other modern “elite” figures from the worlds of technology and art.

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They were originally seen roaming in Miami and San Francisco, but are now installed at the New National Gallery in Berlin.

Functionally, the dogs do very little: they wander aimlessly within an enclosed area and “defecate” printed images of their surroundings, stylized according to whichever celebrity face they are assigned.

For example, the robot dog with Andy Warhol’s face produces pop-art-style images generated by AI algorithms.

The interactive exhibition, titled “Regular Animals,” was created by American artist Beeple (real name Mike Winkelmann).

According to the artist, the project is meant to reflect how tech billionaires and their platforms and algorithms shape modern perception of reality.

“In the past, our view of the world was partly shaped by how artists saw it. Picasso’s paintings changed how we saw the world, Warhol spoke about consumerism and pop culture — and that influenced public consciousness,” Beeple explained.

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Today, he said, the perception of the world is increasingly defined by tech corporations and billionaires who control the algorithms that determine what society sees.

“That is an immense amount of power that we still don’t fully understand. They don’t need to lobby the UN or pass laws through Congress or the EU. They just wake up and change the algorithms,” he added.

Beeple also included a model of his own face on some of the robots, acknowledging his own influence as one of the most expensive living digital artists.

According to the artist, the robots “theoretically die” after three years, after which their digital existence is “preserved forever on the blockchain.”


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