'Clanker' is social media's new slur for our robot future

Sounds like the 'clank' slur from the Deus Ex universe.

Counting the days till conservatives start flying Knights Templar uniforms.

Does this mean we're getting genetically engineered whale based airships in the british navy?

if robots gain personhood, it's not the robot body that gains personhood. it's the robot mind, aka. the computer.

imo personhood is tied to responsibility. if machines can be responsible, they can be persons.

consider that a lot of organizations already have legal personhood, including corporations, non-profit foundations, and cities/states.

I and at least two other people once called robots "tin cans" on social media. Can mashable turn that into a "news story", too?

This DEFINITELY gunna get cꝏpted by rightshits (if it hasn't already)

Just sincere enough to not be obvious satire , peops outright saying they're gonna be "robophobic" (sadly don't think they're joking) , probably using mass AI panic to recruit peops rightward … writings on the wall

So many peops gonna be radicalised into ecofascism (if not just regular degular fascism) it's scary . Don't think this funny at all

Every time I pull the string on the back of this doll it says something nice to me. Is this true love?
- Hate to break it to you but that aint the back of the doll and it isn't a string you are pulling either.
  But the affection is genuine.
There was a guy who married his DS (yes, a Nintendo DS) so I could see this happening. marrying something that isn't even alive is just weird
One joke
That ship's already passed, women have been loving on hand-held robots for decades now. I would bet that some women love their buzzy little friend more than the man in their lives.
- To the point of marriage?

Fracking toasters.

Toasters is, and always has been a better insult.
It needs to be plugged in, temperature set, then a button to turn bread into toast.
Basically calling a machine simple, single purposed, restrained, and relatively unconfigurable.
- It's also a device that is demonstrably better without AI. So you're essentially saying that they would be better as script driven assembly arms.
- While fairly dangerous when left unattended.
So say we all
- So say we all.

no. we call them toasters for a reason.

Frakking toasters.

Pure propaganda. "Make the people who don't believe in AI Genies sound like bigots, say they have slurs."

You can tell when boomer americans try to make up something "the internet is doing" because it always sounds like some 1900s huckster shit they saw on TV between paint chip snacks

I have seen absolutely nobody refer to the chatbots as "clanker". Notice how this so called 'criticism' of the AI future still accepts as true the same premise the AI fanatics are pushing, they just hold a flashlight under their chin and go, "and it's evil!!!!"
I don't think statistical word generator is as useful as all the investor types seem to think it is, and they're gearing us up for an unthinkably massive market correction in the near future. That's a real criticism of AI.

Well, all right. But I don't want anyone to think we're robosexual or anything, so if anyone asks, you're my debugger.

Oh my god they were debuggers!

He calls me clanka, he calls the other kids clanka, he calls himself clanka. All the time. "Clanka this", "Clanka that", "Clanka, please", "Bitch clanka", "Clanka, have you lost your mind?", "Clanka, check that ho", "Clanka, you bullshit" and "Break yourself, clanka". He says it so much, I don't even notice it anymore. Last week in lunch, Optimus said to a classmate, "Can a clanka borrow a french fry?" And my first thought wasn't "Oh, my God. He said the word, uh, the C-word". It was now "How is a clanka gonna borrow a fry?" "Clanka, is you gonna give it back?" I'm telling you, my inside voice didn't talk like that before he got in my class.

If we end up with Star wars robots that would be quite fun actually. They're basically more comedic than they are dangerous.

The KX units would probably disagree. Love the design of them, like a robotic overweight Mafioso.

We need a c/okbuddyclanker

Okie dokie clanker, mesa go creates it for yoo.

Wait... do we have slurs against LLMs now? Fuuuuck...

I've been using it differently than the article suggests I guess. So far I've only called people who blatantly use LLM instead of their own words on debate forums "clankers."

I hate that we call social media debate platforms.
CEOs found a way to divide us with the internet. I hate what it became
- The term "social media" is already toxic. When I started using the Internet, socialising and media were two separate things. Conflating the two implies that every time we say something, we are publishing an article and should care about how many views and likes we get, instead of making a genuine attempt at connection. And it suggests that every reply should be some kind of review of the post it replies to.
  In the days of forums, people would just post what came into mind. They were more honest because there was no number next to your comment rating how good it was.
- I mean specific forums for debate and not the general social web, but you probably just wanted to vent and that's fair.