#slaughterbots
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #slaughterbots from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-08-02 03:39 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-08-02 03:39 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-02 03:39 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 16 public posts (spanning ~56877 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 12:00
Languages: English (12) · German (3)
Avg boosts / post: 0.9
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A public service announcement if you haven't already seen it, pretty F'in chilling!! Sci-Fi Short Film Slaughterbots presented by DUST - PeerTube on Mastodon.host https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/b30b0589-d061-42d4-8490-884c2a618
Proper scary stuff - Stuart Russell’s series of #ReithLectures on #AI - this episode on warfare mentions a 7 minute movie #Slaughterbots (link below) which provokes some concerning food for thought Lecture: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play
@mike I did not, thanks for bringing this up. This is rather horrific and indicates a frightening development. Have you seen the short-film #slaughterbots by the #FutureOfLife institute? https://futureoflife.org/lethal-autonomous-weapons-sy
What “slaughterbots” means
WikipediaSlaughterbots is a 2017 arms-control advocacy video presenting a dramatized near-future scenario where swarms of inexpensive microdrones use artificial intelligence and facial recognition software to assassinate political opponents based on preprogrammed criteria. It was released by the Future of Life Institute and Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at Berkeley. On YouTube, the video quickly went viral, garnering over two million views and was screened at the United Nations Conventi
“Slaughterbots” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#slaughterbots across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #slaughterbots straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/slaughterbots