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Beeple's nightmarish billionaire robot dogs — Featuring Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos

No thanks!
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Hey...no. Credit: Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Art Basel

Hey man, I don't know what message you're trying to send by plastering extremely realistic-looking billionaire faces onto robot dogs — that's between you and your higher power, or lack thereof — but no thanks. I'm good, actually, thanks for offering.

I actually do not need to witness Elon Musk's smirking visage attached to a robot that then defecates AI-generated Polaroids to the audience. I've got errands to run.

Look at these damn things.

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The art installation I'm referring to is called Regular Animals, located in Miami during Art Basel. It's a creation by Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, the artist who sold his NFT art for $69 million during the 2021 NFT boom.

The penned-up billionaire dogs include Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, as well as art-world figures like Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and Beeple himself. It's unnerving and weird to see the hyper-realistic faces wandering around on the picture-pooping dogs. Some folks might be tempted to draw some meaning from the installation. Not me, I've got laundry to do. No thanks.

Topics Robotics

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  1. How much 4 elon?.is he the same price as bezos?
    👀😄

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    1. of course not hahaha

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    2. Elon is more expensive, just look at Forbes. 😂🔥

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  2. Que merda é essa?

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  3. Very realistic, how bizarre.

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  4. If this doesn't get us back in the contemporary galleries, nothing will. Concept through execution, Winkelmann/Beeple's achievement is a towering masterpiece.

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  5. This is great. Like seriously great.

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  6. Is this illegally using their likenesses to sell/promote a product? Even though I think it's in really bad taste, it is hilarious.

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  7. No female dogs ?

    Kamala ????????

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  8. Now make one of t-rump so they can all kiss up to him.

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  9. Absolutely hilarious! I believe a plagiarism charge wouldn't stick because this is legitimate satire :D This thing brings to mind the event in '87 when Bono spray-painted graffiti in San Francisco. At the time, he said "I am an artist, everything I do is art!" LOL

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  10. Did I see a Biden doggie climbing onto a Trump doggie ?????

    Naughty.

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  12. Amazing. I don’t know what this is supposed to be about, but it’s fcking hilarious

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  13. This is the most dystopian thing I’ve seen since police showing up at peoples homes in the UK, for Facebook posts.

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  14. Now this is what tech should be about, LoL 😂😂😂

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  15. Imagine releasing one at an elementary school…
    The terror and trauma those poor kids would face are diabolical

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  16. Zuckerberg's Metaverse? 😂😂😂

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  17. And they even poop nft wastes.

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  18. What about the most dangerous computer viruses

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    1. Lmao ikr cybernews have their title like that

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  19. Stop spamming this garbage

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  20. This is fucking creepy. Fuck off!

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  21. I love Beeple but isn’t this a little ironic considering he was all in NFTs?

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  22. Is this meant to be good or bad? Like it's Beeple, he was THE nft guy.

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  23. uh ok but how is this cyberpunk

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  24. Oh hey, it's this one again.

    Fourth time this week.

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  25. Of course there's no Bill Gates or Jack Dorsey.

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  26. I remember seeing this years ago… has the dead internet run out of shit to post and is recycling?

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  27. Be funny as hell if he had some of them humping each other doggy style 🤣 😂

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  28. hoping that one day when they become fully sentient they will be wearing the real faces torn off from they're corpses

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  29. This is nightmare fuel

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  30. The invasion of the body snatchers (https://youtu.be/ktEW65QQFgQ)

    Makes sense…

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  31. I think those heads should be on every combat war dog in the future

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    1. https://gifdb.com/images/high/confused-dog-in-yoda-costume-t8e7f8wl432mm5ka.gif

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    2. Tim Burton approves this message.

      https://s1.ezgif.com/tmp/ezgif-19f82ec99a9700d8.gif

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    3. https://tenor.com/view/stare-sam-jackson-shook-shocked-scary-gif-5260044

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  32. Are those masks from Epstein’s island?

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  33. With all the AI shit on the internet these days I can’t believe what I am seeing anymore. lol.

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    1. Feels like Ai slop,but it's real 😅

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    2. Beeple was sloppin before AI was even on the scene.

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    1. https://gifdb.com/gif/boop-498-x-223-gif-x3653zfzjbaktfpv.html

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  35. Can they smell each other’s butts?

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    1. they already do. oh wait.. you mean the robot

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    2. https://tenor.com/view/bruh-fall-slide-out-of-chair-phone-drop-phone-gif-2492535367053624013

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  36. Not Beeple, this dude's crypto art is some of the dumbest crap

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  37. Day 2 of me demanding we tax billionaires 70%

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    1. Day 7002 of watching the poor sink deeper…

      the rich climb higher…

      the working class turn on each other while more divisions get manufactured…

      https://giphy.com/gifs/rosaluxstiftung-rosalux-Wzu02vIzSaJwv88atZ

      and the wealthy laugh at parties, spilling wine like it means nothing.

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    2. Yes, obviously. i am with you . be weary , Many will resist, many will downvote, but stand firm, my brother.....

      For the night is dark and full of terrors,

      in this case "bots paid by oligarchs and corporates will downvote you " .

      https://giphy.com/gifs/game-of-thrones-3o72EU6W6bOv2mKw0g

      coz they dont want anyone to wake up to the truth !

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    3. 70% of what? Payroll? They don’t have payroll. Their wealth is in stocks. Capital gains tax? They don’t have capital gains unless they sell their stocks. Taxing unrealized capital gains could maybe work, but you’d probably have to pay them out every year the stocks go down.

      Anyway, there’s a long, long path down the rabbit hole that makes it more difficult than it sounds. Trump has started having the federal government take equity stakes in private corporations. That’s one GIANT step toward socialism.

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    4. 70% of everything they own, every ear, including whatever they own in stocks

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    5. Take 70% of Elon Musk’s stocks? Do those stocks just get owned by the US Treasury, or does he have to sell them? Because if he has to have a fire sale every quarter or year, you’ll just have institutional investors buying them up at a discount. All you’ve done is transfer money from one billionaire to a bunch of other rich people. Or, maybe the Saudis will just buy those discounted stocks. Or maybe Musk just moves to another country and where he can get citizenship. What would you do about that?

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  38. Wow. I knew beeple back when he was making animations of pregnant michael jackson womb bots walking down a mall with monkey-stores.

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  39. Invasion of the Body Snatchers dog scene, but even lamer.

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  40. "Look, ai wont take over the world..."

    My face in 15 years when im a sentient robo dog with a fucked up human head shitting reciepts :

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  41. Elon, please stop sniffing Zuck's butthole, it's not even in the code!

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      For fun mate !!

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  43. so u want to be immortal? that's the only way...😏

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  44. Looks fucking stupid

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    1. That’s the point, it looks pretty funny

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    3. It's the dude that jumpstarted NFTs, of course it's stupid

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    4. And then went on Corridor Crew and was a dick to Peter.

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    5. That's the point though

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    6. Yeah, but to me it looks fucking stupid.

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  45. Beeple isn't even an interesting provocateur, this is just halfwit stuff.

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  46. Art Basel Miami

    This was not in Switzerland

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  47. Did you say print??????

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  48. This would be interesting in person for like 7 seconds. Compared to Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s Can’t Help Myself

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  49. 0:11 - what does he have against Picasso?

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  50. You look at shit like this, and you tell me, that there's a god? If they exist, they are unaware of the nightmares occurring in their kingdom, or they are impotent to alter the outcomes or our decisions.

    This, is clear proof of the contempt man has for his fellow humans.

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    1. It’s just fake heads on moving metal, man. Humanity has done much worse to each other.

      Each person depicted has likely committed deeds far unholier than the art piece.

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    2. Likely lmao. SURELY. especially plantir.

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    3. Like taking off their heads to make a point

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    4. Sure, but where is this leading? A better mankind?

      Its not like the guillotine didnt chopped off thousands of heads.

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    5. It's shock-art, it's been around for millennia.

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    6. Yeah, we've been violent for a long time too

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    7. I don't mean it in terms of it has to be violent in order to be shocking. I'm just saying shocking like controversial.

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    8. I personally found the "ABC News WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW" bumper to be a nice touch.

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    9. If this is where you see proof of the contempt man has for his fellow humans, you really need to get out more.

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    10. Oh no, i see it all the time, this was just a "Fun" example of it.

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    11. Idk maybe God thinks it's kinda funny like I do

      he doesn't talk to me so I wouldn't really know

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    12. Personally, I thought it would have been better if they were humping each other.

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    13. they probably did. That clip was only like a few minutes, we don't see what they started doing as soon as the camera was off.

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    14. The contempt that people like Musk and Zuck, though their actions, show for the common man is much, much more extreme than this. What a weird fucking comment lol

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  51. well that's not creepy at all.

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  53. you can't convince me this is "art". this is having too much money and being mentally disturbed.

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  54. https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Babyface

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  55. Dystopian is realism now

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  56. I get that this is funny ... but what does it have to do with ChatGPT ?

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  57. That Zuck-dog looks more human like than the "real" Zuck.

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