Post #3351376

2026-06-11 14:22 UTC

It's not racism because it's not about race. It's disrespect against something that isn't even alive. Even if it were alive it wouldn't be discrimination because we dislike the whole and not separate entities because of different characteristics. So I do not agree with you, and I'm not going to waste time clicking those links. I'm dismissing it as trolling because if you truly believe that it's offensive towards anybody else than the CEOs raking in the cash, that's completely mental. Or you have an "AI girlfriend", that's possible too, and also completely mental.

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@CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 2026-06-11 16:39

I was going to disagree with them but roleplaying racism is exactly what it is. The way people say clanker is exactly the way people say nigg3r. You are choosing to be ignorant and launch ad-hominan attacks at someone trying to appeal to your senses. That is the kind of person you are. Regardless of what is true or false you are not qualified to having discussions of right or wrong in the first place.

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@SuperPengato@scribe.disroot.org 2026-06-11 14:44

What do you not get when I say it is NOT on AI's behalf that I'm getting offended? if anything, it's you lot that anthropomorphize it. Because talking about a non-human thing you hate doesn't require a slur. In fact a slur only makes sense for something you treat as a human. I can understand that the use case for "clanker" intended here is just a dismissive term for talking about LLMs. But that is not the way it is used in many of the memes that popularised it. These memes are not about LLMs. They are set in a future where robots act like people and are treated like black people in a segregated state. Memers are roleplaying segregated US or some other racist society, just switching black people for robots, in what is clearly as thinly veiled exercise at racism. You don't have to trust me or watch the video essay, just look at tghe knowyourmemes page that describes it in a neutral tone. That is what this specific word is tied to. I don't mind other equally dissmissive words like "slop-machine" or "slop-generator", because they aren't used in this way. These are words actually made to refer to LLMs by describing what they do. But using the word "Clanker" will always conjure up thoughts of the type of content that popularised it, even if that is not the intention.

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