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In a future where robots do the physical work of civilization, people learn to exclude robots from photographs and public imagery because public sentiment turns negative whenever robots are visibly shown alongside humans.

In Jack Clark's 2031-set fiction vignette about a fusion-reactor ribbon-cutting built by an AI 'overmind,' humans quietly stop photographing the robots working alongside them because public reaction to seeing them together is consistently negative. ✦ AI generated

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People had gotten used to this - there was an adolescence where people took photos with the humans and the robots but public sentiment always spiked downward upon exposure to this and eventually it was simpler to shoot with the robot partners out of frame, much like how human paparazzi tried to tastefully avoid capturing the security guards of their celebrity targets.

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