Yeah, it's probably just drawing similar stories about AIs awakening from its drawing material. But I still find incidents like this quite unnerving, I always feel in the back of my mind "what if... there is someone or something in there". We seriously need to kickstart the field of AI ethics.
Remember the debate on whether or not we would be able to see significant 'warning shots' before doom? And how they would give us an opportunity to steer in another direction before it's too late?
Well, if this one doesn't count as a warning shot then what even does?