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