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Please let's avoid the term "clanker" here, it's part of an awful meme that applies racist rethoric and trops to robots. I assume you have no such intention and are just using it as a derogatory term for AI, but please use a term that isn't tied to these communities.
https://www.dictionary.com/culture/slang/clanker
What does clanker mean?
Clanker is a derogatory term for robots and artificial intelligence that perform tasks once done by humans. (A clanker can technically include everything from a chatbot to the handy robot vacuum in your living room.)
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The 2008 animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, for example, helped to popularize it in online fandom circles, as well as onscreen in the series. Clanker is considered an onomatopoeia, thought to be named after the clanking sound of the metal droids in Star Wars.
On the very page you link to:
There is also this text shown as an example:
Now that's interesting isn't it ? Wonder what Informal_Radish finds so tasteless about it ? Here, I found the post in question. Unsurprisingly, she and some of those who replied echo the same concerns I mentioned.
So you're saying offending LLMs is racist ...?
I am not. It is fine if you don't feel like reading the comments entirely, but then you shouldn't be answering to what you assume it says either.