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by Mougatine 1220 days ago
In a way, it's similar to the actors selling their digital images in the movie The Congress. It's inevitable.
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Based (how closely ?) on the 1971 black humour science fiction novel "The Futurological Congress" by Stanisław Lem !

(For those that would not know, he coined the term "robot" from the slavic root "work".)

Are you sure? Wikipedia says the word was coined by Karel Capek:

https://wikiless.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek?lang=en

Oh damn. My bad - it's funny, I even though to myself : «he would have been quite young, wouldn't he ?»
wow, not many people have seen this movie. 100%.
I'd never heard of it, but definitely going to check it out now. A lot has happened in the ten years since it was created.