Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell

Auth@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I absolutely love the term clankers. It’s the perfect blend of dystopian cyberpunk and the very real threat of AI.

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  • Vupware@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It seems goofy to me — I wish we had collectively picked a term with more oomph.

    I’m struggling to come up with an alternative though.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      toasters

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      • massacre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So say we all.

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    • addie@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m still trying to make ‘sloppers’ happen. Perfectly describes the lack of thought that goes into what they produce.

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      • 4grams@awful.systems ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I like ‘sloppers’ as a term for the morons distrubing and consuming the shit that the clankers are excreting.

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        clankers make the end result that sloppers (meatbags) eat up ;)

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      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah and the make a mess of network traffic that slows everything down.

        Sludgers works too, but I like slop for the LLM output, so it makes sense as the bot term of derision.

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    • mhague@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Stealing a slur from Star Wars and engaging in traditional name calling to show we disapprove of uncreative slop.

      We can’t even think of an original term. We can’t think of a novel way to shit on AI. We just copy what everyone else is doing to make fun of the plagiarism machine.

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      • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Why does everyone think the term came from Star Wars? I know it was used in steampunk before then, and google suggests it goes back to a 1958 article about robots. Sorry, not trying to be pedantic, just feels like a lot of people give Star Wars unjust credit for things they didn’t actually create.

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No no - it’s not plagiarism; it’s standardization.

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