Pseud media about robots doesn't understand that awareness of being a machine is a fundamental requirement for a machine to be considered self-aware. If the machine needed to have its mechanical nature revealed to it, it obviously isn't a self-aware entity in the first place by definition. Similarly a robot that behaves as though it knows all of its outward emotions are fake could be self-aware, whereas a robot that acts as though it believes its emotions aren't fake is certainly just a stupid, non-sentient algorithm.
