# AI-powered calf robot to confront leather-clad Greenville shoppers, PETA announces **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [April 30, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714 "2025-04-30T15:03:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/1 "2025-04-30T15:03:42Z")
Welp, this is it, folks. We’ve officially crossed the line into a cyberpunk dystopia. Mark your calendars. > **['Are You Wearing My Mom?' AI-powered calf robot to confront leather-clad...](https://www.wyff4.com/article/calf-robot-peta-downtown-greenville-leather-clad-shoppers/64632762)** > > If you are in downtown Greenville Wednesday afternoon, you may see an AI-powered robot calf approaching shoppers. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/2 "2025-04-30T15:09:15Z")
I would answer, “Yes, but I’m disappointed you didn’t notice my calf skin leather gloves. They are SO soft!” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/3 "2025-04-30T15:17:18Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Welp, this is it, folks. We’ve officially crossed the line into a cyberpunk dystopia. Mark your calendars. - If I were wearing it’s mom, my boots would be metal. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/4 "2025-04-30T15:20:09Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Yes, but I’m disappointed you didn’t notice my calf skin leather gloves. They are SO soft! Really. Where’s that damn “like” button… (Has PETA had a good succesful publicity stunt in this century? They seem to have settled for ocassional trolling as far as media I follow are concerned. ) ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/5 "2025-04-30T15:29:17Z")
No, and I think it is because they are intrusive, judgmental, and oh so annoying! Chelsea Handler rags PETA in, “Uganda Be Kidding Me”: "“I hate Peta,” she deadpans. “I will eat a cat to piss Peta off. I would fucking feed a parrot to a cat, cook them both and then eat it, just to piss them off. And send them a video.” 😄 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/6 "2025-04-30T15:30:07Z")
Was PETA always a ridiculous caricature of itself or did I just not notice that when I was a kid? OTTIMH Othe PETA ‘Brilliant Ideas’ Try to get people to call fish “sea kittens” so people will feel bad about eating them Ads telling college students to drink beer instead of milk “Milk Suckers” based on Garbage Pail Kids, these cards depict different horrible things that happen to you because you drink milk. PETA members attempted literally to hand these out to elementary school students. “Holocaust On Your Plate” They claimed this idea was endorsed by an actual holocaust survivor. It may have been. These ads, as you might guess, compared killing animals for meat to the holocaust. I and many other people found this profoundly offensive. Claiming Jews, Romani, etc were not human and thus did not deserve human rights is ludicrous. Claiming cows, chickens etc are not humans is just stating scientific fact. We can argue over how they should be treated and what rights, if any, they have. But, they do not have human rights. The puprose of the holocaust was extermination. The purpose of the meat industry is to keep producing a population of healthy animals- so that we can kill and eat them. “I’d rather be naked than wear fur!” This ad campaign taught us that killing animals and wearing them is wrong. Showing nude women to get attention is okay though. PETA has also been against the ownership of pets for many years. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/7 "2025-04-30T15:35:06Z")
PETA thinks any publicity must be good, no matter how stupid and annoying it shows them to be, as long as someone is paying attention to them for a little while. Don’t hold your breath waiting for major league baseball to rename the home of relief pitchers (the bullpen) as “arm barns” as PETA wants. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/8 "2025-04-30T15:38:40Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > PETA thinks any publicity must be good, no matter how stupid and annoying it shows them to be, as long as someone is paying attention to them for a little while. Yup. We’re not talking about American Humane, or SPCA, or HSUS, or any other animal welfare group right now. We’re talking about PETA. That is, in their eyes, a win. If you’re fine giving them more victories according to the game they’re playing, keep talking about them. If you’d rather not further their “look at me!” agenda, roll your eyes at their puerile cries for attention and move on. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/9 "2025-04-30T15:39:09Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > PETA has also been against the ownership of pets for many years. If they really knew anything about animals, they’d know that my cat owned me, and he only allowed me to live in HIS apartment because I was his servant 24/7. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/10 "2025-04-30T15:46:45Z")
Strange that the Jains have humane ethics even as strict if not more so than PETA, but I’ve never read of anyone being annoyed by a Jain ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/11 "2025-04-30T15:49:03Z")
From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism) > and a rejection of any simplistic or one-sided view of truth and reality ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/12 "2025-04-30T15:49:32Z")
Never seen a Jain with a robot cow either! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/13 "2025-04-30T15:55:44Z")
These Jain would use one. > **[Jain Technology](https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Jain_Technology)** > > Jain Technology is a parasitic/symbiotic lifeform which activates in the presence of sentient beings. Developed by the Jain race as a superweapon, Jain Tech infects a host with an egg-like Jain Node. The Jain Node extends nanoscopic tendrils that... ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/14 "2025-04-30T15:58:41Z")
I’ll take the under on “someone smashes it in a week.” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/15 "2025-04-30T16:05:28Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > major league baseball to rename the home of relief pitchers (the bullpen) as “arm barns” I never heard that one. I like it, the rhyming makes it work. As long as they bring back the reliever cart shaped like a giant baseball. but, nah, I don’t want to give the PETA quacks a win. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/16 "2025-04-30T16:07:04Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I’ll take the under on “someone smashes it in a week.” “Smash”, in modern slang, means “have sex with”. So…maybe? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/17 "2025-04-30T16:12:21Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > but, nah, I don’t want to give the PETA quacks a win. Did ducks approve of that usage? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/18 "2025-04-30T16:14:46Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Never seen a Jain with a robot cow either! I’ve never seen a robot cow I never hope to see one But I can tell you anyhow I’d rather see than be one ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/19 "2025-04-30T16:15:02Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Did ducks approve of that usage? You mean air kittens? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714/20 "2025-04-30T16:26:07Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I’ll take the under on “someone smashes it in a week.” I’ll go further. Someone exercising their Constitutional right to bear arms on a public street will shoot the robot, claiming the robot was assaulting them. The D.A. will decide for the human and refuse to file charges. PETA will try to sue but won’t be able to find an unbiased jury. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-powered-calf-robot-to-confront-leather-clad-greenville-shoppers-peta-announces/1017714.md?page=2)