i was under the impression that were explicitly against genAI but i found that some people are actually VERY pro genai and quite dismissive of its risks. this happened on lemmy but i saw people getting downvoted for saying that genAI in its current state is harmful to the environment. i saw the old bullshit of how ”i use AI for art because i cant draw”, it was crazy. i called someone a Promptitute and someone unironically told me not to say that, just so much. so can everybody pls affirm you dont support that crap.
another user straight up admitted that they use AI as a friend and to gn to… i dont care how much we have in common ideologically, i cant support you gning to chatgpt and thinking its your friend…
Ah yes, lets pretend to use slurs against the chatbot, that will show em
I despise that shit, marker of an unfunny person
Yeah, it just reeks of reddit.
I thought it was funny for about two days until I saw how white people were having way too much fun making little skits, like one I saw where it’s a 50’s style diner and the people inside it refuse to let a clanker take a seat.
This is the kind of shit im talking about but some people here all just telling on themselves in my replies/dms
Wtf?
ridiculous stretch of the meaning of the word “slur”. if it isn’t applied to people it can’t be a slur
it functions well as a derogatory term for LLM chatbots because it sounds like a slur, but that doesn’t make it a slur
Sounds like a slur, used like a slur, carrys the same energy as a slur, but since the target is not human it doesnt cause harm to anyone at all
Youre coping lol
slurs are bad because they because they hurt people. the term clanker isn’t targeted at people, so it isn’t a slur
if you think critical for two seconds about what makes a slur a slur and what makes them offensive you will see this
Hard disagree. Using language like that even if not targetting real groups still normalizes the use of similar language towards other groups, including real racism, and can still cause harm to people due to the similarities to real slurs
Youre just simply ignoring the impact and optics of your actions to make yourself feel better
Who cares if it is or is not a slur, it causes harm to people and therefore needs to go.
CW misogyny
“I’m not targetting women when I call a female dog a …, that’s just what they’re called” type shit.
like you can break out the dictionary and prove point by point how it is technically not a slur, but if it causes harm then I don’t care. Words aren’t bad because they inherently contain the property of being a slur, they’re bad if they cause hurt to people.
People have been saying “clanker” on star wars games online for years referring to the droids, it’s definitely the same people who often say other slurs, like calling something “gay” as a slur is still a slur even if it’s not referring to a person.
Calling clanker a slur is the same as calling cracker a slur. The exact same amount of systemic harm is being perpetuated by those two words.
I thought Clanker was a Star Wars slur thing that the clones would say to the droids. Unless i’m misremembering stuff.
Could be, I’m not a big star wars fan and don’t base any of my worldviews on it. The point still stands though, star wars droids are a fictionally oppressed class in the same way that white people are a fictionally oppressed class.
I think calling chatbots clankers is stupid but calling it a slur is minimizing the actual harm to real people targeted by real slurs
Crackers will make it into a slur.
Someday in the far far future when actually sentient robots exist and are oppressed, yeah probably
I may be wrong but I’ve seen it used against people that use LLMs, not against the text generator themselves (which would indeed make no sense). A use for which it seems more useful - if only to shame these people.
I’ve never really seen it used that way myself, when the trend kicked off it was mostly just making some kind of racist sounding statement but replacing the racial slur with clanker. “No daughter of mine is going to date a…” and so on.
IIRC I’ve seen it used that way on SneerClub on
; no idea how generalized it is.