Obvious shit post.

I'll be monitoring. If it gets out of hand, I'll be removing it.

Thank you for posting Abyssian. The world really doesn't need more slurs.

What's that meme Lemmy likes to whip out? "it is the tool of the enemy, we do not need it, we do not use it" ...yea, well, that. Come on people.

You know, overall I think I agree with you, and I suspect you'd be facing a lot less pushback if you'd made your argument a bit more generic and not specifically about AI. If the argument is "co-opting existing hate speech language is not cool, even if you're using it to talk about things that most people dislike, and even if those things aren't capable of having feelings of their own." If I saw a guy on the street stub his toe on a mailbox and then heard him angrily call it a "metal f*g", I'd think he was a weird homophobe. I still remember people in the early 00's using the term "wigger" to refer to Caucasian rapper wannabes, and how it pretty quickly fell out of use because it was obviously gross, even for the time.

I must not run in the same kinds of circles as you, online or IRL, because I think I've only heard one or two people use the term clanker and I haven't heard anyone use the other terms you mentioned. The times I've heard/read clanker, it didn't seem like the people were trying to make allusions to the n word. They certainly weren't doing any of that "clanka", "don't say the hard R, yuck yuck" type stuff or I definitely would have clocked what they were doing. The other terms you mentioned are, to me, way more obviously derived from existing slurs.

I don’t know why you’re being downvoted so much. Slurs are immature, and crude; the subject honestly has nothing to do with it.

I’ve never seen someone else hurl a slur and feel good about it myself.

Agreed. They shouldn't be thinly veiled.

While I’ve never seen nor heard them used before, I’m with you on existing slurs being slightly tweaked for use in other contexts (e.g. wetback to wireback) being in poor taste.

What are the racist or homophobic roots of “clanker”? Sharing the “-er” suffix with another word doesn’t count, that’s just the nature of language.

I hate to break it to you, but they're not the same words. Also cocksucker isn't racial and hardly counts as a slur. Stop assuming intent where there isn't any just because you are conflating terms.

We shouldn't hurt real people who enjoy replacing human jobs. Ok.

You shouldn't be racist against people because that's unethical. But this is against AI, and AI isn't people. And because it's socially acceptable to say that, people have a lower threshold. Then there's also good reasons to say it. There's incredible unfairness in the way AI is implemented, who it affects, the problems it exacerbates and the side-effects it comes with. This is why people like saying it, as a form of protest.

And I agree with them. I don't say it, but I can emphasize with most of those people and it's generally useful to highlight the wrongs it is doing.

Now it's hard for me to understand how this affects people who are not implicated in the development of AIs. I can agree not everyone who develops AIs is bad, but the development of AI as a whole comes with some obvious baggage. And you're not calling the people clankers, you're calling the AIs clankers.

So in short: I feel like "clanker" is not hurtful, and it's fine to say and I have a hard time understanding your issues with it, if you're not an AI.

Aww, did someone insult your clanker girlfriend? 🤖