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

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨return2ozma@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://mashable.com/article/new-robot-slur-clanker-trending-on-social-media

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  • genevieve@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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    • meeeeetch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Every time I pull the string on the back of this doll it says something nice to me. Is this true love?

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      • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Reach for the sky!!!

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      • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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    • frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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

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    • A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One joke

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        To the point of marriage?

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • yogurtwrong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh

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  • ordinarylove@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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."

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  • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Slur requires a group of disparaged people to whom the slur is targeted. Beep-boops with no intelligence ain’t fucking people.

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  • CleoCommunist@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We need a c/okbuddyclanker

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    • aviationeast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Okie dokie clanker, mesa go creates it for yoo.

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  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    no. we call them toasters for a reason.

    happy now

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    • Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Frakking toasters.

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  • Deebster@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can’t believe these bigots are so casually using the c-word

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    • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cunt?

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      • Prox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, the offensive c-word.

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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Elon Musk’s Optimus robot has been coming to work in factories “by the end of the year” for over five years now.

    It’s just another unsubstantiated promise he reuses every year just like the long promised full autonomy of his self-driving cars.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m actually surprised he hasn’t started working on Fusion since that’s similarly always just a few years away. It has been since the 1960s.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Inside me there are two tech nerds. One is optimistic towards new tech and has the clanka pass. The other is kicking the dominos robot calling it a clanker

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  • DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sounds like the ‘clank’ slur from the Deus Ex universe.

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    • Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Counting the days till conservatives start flying Knights Templar uniforms.

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  • ckmnstr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • etherphon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I guess someone just watched the movie A.I.? Fucking please lol.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We’re heading towards Deus Ex.

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  • Oberyn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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  • disco@lemdro.id [bot] ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are we allowed to use that hard r though?

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  • Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh. I want a droideka bodyguard.

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  • ptolemai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shiny hiney

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  • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And here I am wanting nothing more than to upload my mind.

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  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Quadhammer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s the clanks! Beat it felllas!

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