I and at least two other people once called robots “tin cans” on social media. Can mashable turn that into a “news story”, too?
'Clanker' is social media's new slur for our robot future
Submitted 1 day 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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ckmnstr@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Oberyn@lemmy.world 2 hours 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
genevieve@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
meeeeetch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Every time I pull the string on the back of this doll it says something nice to me. Is this true love?
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Reach for the sky!!!
Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 day 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.
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 1 day 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
A7thStone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
One joke
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day 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.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
To the point of marriage?
Quadhammer@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s the clanks! Beat it felllas!
ordinarylove@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day 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
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 3 hours 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.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Slur requires a group of disparaged people to whom the slur is targeted. Beep-boops with no intelligence ain’t fucking people.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh
CleoCommunist@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
Frakking toasters.
echodot@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
If we end up with Star wars robots that would be quite fun actually. They’re basically more comedic than they are dangerous.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
The KX units would probably disagree. Love the design of them, like a robotic overweight Mafioso.
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
We need a c/okbuddyclanker
aviationeast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Okie dokie clanker, mesa go creates it for yoo.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 1 day 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."
disco@lemdro.id [bot] 9 hours ago
Are we allowed to use that hard r though?
Harvey656@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Wait… do we have slurs against LLMs now? Fuuuuck…
Deebster@infosec.pub 1 day ago
I can’t believe these bigots are so casually using the c-word
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Cunt?
Prox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, the offensive c-word.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
echodot@feddit.uk 10 hours 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.
etherphon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I guess someone just watched the movie A.I.? Fucking please lol.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 day 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
ptolemai@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Shiny hiney
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh. I want a droideka bodyguard.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And here I am wanting nothing more than to upload my mind.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
if robots gain personhood, it’s not the robot body that gains personhood. it’s the robot mind, aka. the computer.