Jenniferplusplus

Having heard some people say the word clanker out loud recently, I'm coming around to the idea that it is kind of a slur and shouldn't be used.

Not that it's bad for the chatbots, which is not even a claim that makes sense. That idea is not even wrong. But it's bad for us. The language we use is self-training our thoughts and behavior. What I heard was people training themselves to use slurs, and holy shit, no

Mar 17 at 3:52pmWeb
Show threadHeckin Teagan ​🛩️Mar 17
@jenniferplusplus this entirely.
Show threadAaron In MinnesotaMar 17

@jenniferplusplus Hm. 🤔

Slurs towards people are definitely bad. Slurs towards products or technology certainly feel less problematic.

Calling Cybertrucks derogatory names isn't something I find very appealing myself, but not sure I would recommend against it.

Using negative terms for things that merit a bit of negative framing feels okay sometimes I guess.

The point that the language we use is self-training our thoughts and behavior, and can be bad for us is certainly valid in any case

Show threadjackMar 17

@jenniferplusplus Whether or not it's a slur, it's certainly cringe

(and, yeah, I'm coming round to it being a slur by way of elevating a chatbot to artificial personhood only to then diminish that personhood...)

Show threadPete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫Mar 17
@jackeric @jenniferplusplus
It does seem ready made for when the rich get the robot slaves they thirst for, and can gleefully adopt a slur for them, despite a significant fraction of the work the "robot" slaves do being supported or even fully carried out by people in the third world on slave wages.
Show threaddraNgNonMar 17

@jenniferplusplus clanker is a reference to sentient machines and thus is bad in two ways.

You can't really "slur" a stochastic parrot, but here the term is a slur and as such implies sentience to the slurred party ... Which is an LLM and not worthy of such elevation

"holy shit, no" just about covers it!