People love using thinly veiled existing racist/homophobic slurs against AI. “Tinskin”, “wireback”, “cogsucker”, “clanker.”
Yes, I know that “clanker” was in Star Wars. That’s not what made it so popular, and the majority of people using it today likely never saw it there. People also use “clanka” and leave comments about using “the hard r.”
We all know what you’re talking about. You know when you’re typing it out. It’s not alright.
There are people places like Lemmy who spent their lives being called or watching their families be called the terms people are so lightly tossing about today. Do you really think that doesn’t bother any of them?
It seems like so many people were just eagerly waiting for something they felt it was socially acceptable to hurl slurs and abuse at, and happily reached for terms just like the ones they already knew.
Some kids at my niece’s school now think it’s cute to stare at black kids and talk loudly about how much they hate “clankas” making it very clear what they mean by it.
It’s one thing to dislike AI, how it’s been developed, and the intent of replacing human jobs. To insult AI and the people behind it.
It’s something completely different to jump in with constant streams of thinly veiled existing slurs that can and do hurt real people.
I said JonsJava is welcome to explain how this is a shitpost to my grandmother. Because she’s old and black and extremely bothered by these terms.
A brilliant human responded to tell my granny something about her clanker boyfriend. That would be my grandfather, who is also black.
The entire point of the topic is that repurposing existing slurs against humans with slight variations is fucked up.
Do I still need to keep connecting dots, or can you take it from there for yourself?
Your grandma is fucking soft and an idiot. I bet she gets her opinions on AI from some clanker. No need to be so tinskinned about terms used to shit on a literal computer with no feelings.
My grandma grew up being spit on and called a nigge* and survived being lynched.
Your parents didn’t hit you enough.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Please go seek help, you’ve degraded to the point of suggesting elders physically abuse younger generations for anyone that so much as calls Artificial Intelligence a Clanker.
Get. Fucking. Real.
And go get yourself and your family some serious mental help if you’re really misconstruing yourself as an offended electronic datacenter because people used bad words in your life.
Get over it.