Boston Dynamics fake news by Zach Brown

Boston Dynamics is a company that specializes at making robots that they have shown off in videos that have been viral. In this article it shows a video of a robot that goes rogue and starts shooting at the people who made it. Another video like this one, surfaced a few months ago and its almost the same thing but the robot doesn’t use a gun, but instead uses its fists and starts fighting and throwing objects at them. However, this isn’t Boston Dynamics, instead it is a group of YouTubers who specialize in CGI.
The YouTube channel Corridor Crew are a group of people who specialize in CGI and other types of different effects that are scene in movies and TV. Corridor has been making these parodies of Boston Dynamics by the name of Bosstown Dynamics instead and people barely notice this and spread it around thinking its true. This is smart for Corridor because of the attention their CGI robot videos get, their YouTube channel does very well and brings hundreds of thousands to millions of views each video they upload.
Most people can tell that these videos are fake because they would be spread around the news constantly and these projects would be stopped instantly. Corridor does an amazing job with their CGI and is able to make the robot look real, but the technology isn’t there yet for this to happen. Corridor also uploads videos on how they did the CGI work for these projects and the videos are entertaining. Some people still spread fake news of these videos even though there is beyond enough proof that these are fake videos.
I myself have personally scene people on social media spreading the video around, but with a misleading caption which leaves others to not do too much research and just believe that its real. These people also did the same thing with Corridors previous video of a robot doing gymnastics. Spreading these fake stories to get views and then not tell the truth, this can be bad because videos like these go viral quick and thousands to millions of people viewing it can believe that this actually happened and isn’t the work of CGI.
Social media platforms are amazing to have, but when someone uses them to give fake news just for interactions and views it can become a problem. Fake videos and pictures are spread around social media all the time almost daily, this is a problem because its hard to tell what is real and what isn’t anymore, you have to constantly looks up subjects to see if its true or not. Now, most people are able to tell that something looks off in these videos at least so its not that spread around and having people freaking out over an robot attack, but there are still people who do try to make it seem like that. With a quick search of a Boston Dynamic robot video you would be able to see that these are fake and that the real ones are nothing like the CGI videos by Corridor.
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