Fact Check: Are robots playing soccer? Find out here.
A video portraying a man playing soccer with two robots is going viral on X (formerly Twitter) causing anxiety among people on the technology advancements made in the field of Artificial Intelligence, where user @Enezator on X expresses, “Where will this technology end?”
Another user wrote, “transl: Now that the robots have started football training, let’s get ready to see the ball cutting with an axe, this world of Bots is going to take 99% of jobs. Look at the video and see how you and the accuracy pass these giants.”
Fact Check
DFRAC conducted a reverse image search after screenshotting a snippet from the video when it was found that the video is edited. It is edited using software such as Wonder Dynamics, where a robot skin is overlayed over a human subject. An example of this case is shown in a video uploaded on YouTube by Solomon Jagwe on March 10, 2024.
Conclusion
Therefore, it is confirmed by DFRAC that the viral video of two robots playing soccer with a man is an edited video and thus is misleading.
