Mastodawn

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

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jack Mar 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...)

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Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫

@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.