Post #3351290

2026-06-11 09:30 UTC

Please let's avoid the term "clanker" here, it's part of an awful meme that applies racist rethoric and trops to robots. I assume you have no such intention and are just using it as a derogatory term for AI, but please use a term that isn't tied to these communities.

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@its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-06-12 20:50

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@Matty_r@programming.dev 2026-06-11 09:58

AI isn't a person, its software. Go be offended elsewhere.

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@jim_v@lemmy.world 2026-06-11 15:48

https://www.dictionary.com/culture/slang/clanker *What does clanker mean?* Clanker is a derogatory term for robots and artificial intelligence that perform tasks once done by humans. (A clanker can technically include everything from a chatbot to the handy robot vacuum in your living room.) ... The 2008 animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, for example, helped to popularize it in online fandom circles, as well as onscreen in the series. Clanker is considered an onomatopoeia, thought to be named after the clanking sound of the metal droids in Star Wars.

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@Noja@sopuli.xyz 2026-06-11 23:18

Are we just attempting to connect a completely unrelated word to racism now in order to be offended now? I hope your next call to some companies support hotline is answered by a fucking clanker.

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@rounding_error@lemmy.today 2026-06-11 18:11

Fixed for you

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