Elon Musk is huge mad at a report that form of type of implied that one in all his favourite robots attacked one in all his workers at Tesla’s Austin, Texas manufacturing facility two years in the past. The report by no means truly mentioned it was one in all his shiny (fuckable?) Optimus pals, however it didn’t precisely spotlight that it was a terrifying robotic arm meant for selecting up scrap metallic.

Musk is pissed due to the “social media sharing picture” (somewhat information woman communicate for you there) on the unique story from the Day by day Mail, which broke the information of the assault. The picture features a cut up of Cowboy Elon and a small legion of his Optimus robots. The complete publish, certainly, nonetheless consists of photographs of Optimus robots whereas by no means as soon as mentioning them within the story.

Deceptive? Yep. It’s why we right here at Jalopnik stayed away from the story, because the Mail isn’t recognized for being essentially the most dependable supply. Whereas it could look like Musk is lacking the forest of assault robots for the innocent robots timber, the occasion itself sounds terrifying, however all too frequent on America’s manufacturing facility flooring:

A Tesla engineer was attacked by a robotic throughout a brutal and bloody malfunction on the firm’s Giga Texas manufacturing facility close to Austin.

Two witnesses watched in horror as their fellow worker was attacked by the machine designed to seize and transfer freshly solid aluminum automobile components.

The robotic had pinned the person, who was then programming software program for 2 disabled Tesla robots close by, earlier than sinking its metallic claws into the employee’s again and arm, leaving a ‘path of blood’ alongside the manufacturing facility floor.

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The 2 eyewitnesses to the occasion — which occurred within the part of the Texas manufacturing facility ground the place automobile chassis are first assembled — instructed reporters for The Info a extra harrowing story, nonetheless.

Because the bleeding Tesla engineer tried to wrestle free from the meeting robotic’s grasp, one other employee hit an emergency ‘cease’ button to finish the assault.

As soon as free, the engineer fell ‘a few ft down a chute designed to gather scrap aluminum, leaving a path of blood behind him,’ based on The Info, a subscription-based tech information web site.

OSHA has discovered that Tesla has a behavior underreporting accidents, so it’s not out of the realm of chance in any respect that Tesla is now, however the Mail report goes on to say Tesla has a a lot larger fee of damage than different auto crops (one thing we’ve lined as properly.) If Tesla is dishonest the system, why wouldn’t it go all the way in which? The Mail additionally speaks to a lawyer representing injured contractors and workers, who says damage figures are a lot larger than what’s being reported and reported to OHSA concerning the violations, however her statements are nonetheless mild on details and precise findings. All of this, plus the a number of photographs of Optimus robots that fill the physique of the story, makes me suppose the Day by day Mail has finished what it at all times does—create a technically appropriate, however sloppy and deceptive story, for the clicks.

This complete factor put me within the uncomfortable and unfamiliar place of flippantly defending Elon Musk. Ugh. His method of doing enterprise is nonetheless dangerous and, most of all, harmful for staff, however there’s a lot to dislike about Musk with out bringing his (up to now) harmless intercourse robots into it.