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Designed a sticker to slap on IRL AI bullshit (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 days ago by andicraft@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

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Had this printed so I can do my own little protesting. Here's a high-res image if you want to print your own:

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[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I personally find the term clanker offensive. CHATBOTS have feelings too you know!

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I know it's a joke, but damn, there's a lot of people who started using it with a hard R for racist reasons

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh this reminded me, there's a company in my country manufacturing AI meat products now. "AI was used in the process of creating this recipe" text on them.

I've been tempted to hide these in stores so they spoil and don't get sold... But I also don't want to cause additional food waste.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wear a mask and go slap a few all over the menu screen at a Wendy's. Don't let your car end up on camera either.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Out of the loop, what's the deal with Wendy's and AI?

[–] hoch@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago

You sure showed them

[+] LLMhater1312@piefed.social -35 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Love the sticker, the only thing is isn't clanker being used a lot by racists as a stand in for the n word?

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 60 points 4 days ago

No clanker is the non racist term we use against robots. If you find it racist then you might be a robot.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

My understanding is that it was a word created to have a similar usage/meaning to the n-word, but towards not-actually-sentient computers. It was never used against any class of people, to my knowledge.

[+] november@piefed.blahaj.zone -6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I find it super sus that people are going "yay, we get to make up a slur!" It's not a matter of the targets being hurt by it, it's the motivation.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ehhh, I kinda get it. I like humanity; it's pretty neat. I don't like slurs denigrating certain groups of humans. I don't like AI being pushed to replace human things and being personified in its own way. This is one of the rare times that a slur is used against a non-human AND was simply declared to be intended as a slur from the beginning, rather than having some history driving it.

To your point about the motivation being important: what of the motivation do you see as a problem? I see a resistance to AI replacing important characteristics of humanity. That's a pretty good one, I'd say.

[–] MagnyusG@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

It's not a new word though, it's an onomatopoeia that dates back to late 50s science fiction, specifically in regards to robots, because that was the sound you would expect a moving metal husk to make.

Star Wars is what adopted the term to refer to the many droids of their universe. The droids are cheap, mass produced weapons used by the antagonists of the series, and therefore clanker is used to refer to them. Droids are the bad guys, bad guys = clankers, AI is seen as the bad guys, clanker = AI.

[+] november@piefed.blahaj.zone -7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The motivation is what I already stated: "Yay, we get to make up a slur!"

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

To whose detriment?

[–] november@piefed.blahaj.zone -2 points 4 days ago

To the detriment of society at large.

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is that inherently a bad motivation? What makes slurs a bad thing? The fact that they hurt people? This doesn't hurt people.

[–] november@piefed.blahaj.zone -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If a straight person says the word "fag" in private where no one can hear, does that hurt anyone? The target of that word is real people, but if no one is around to hear...

Eagerness to say a slur because this time no one's getting hurt indicates that someone was willing to say a slur already, but held back to be politically correct. In fact it's mostly the people chomping at the bit to call LLMs "clankers" who identify the word "clanker" as a slur in the first place. I wouldn't even be bothering to make this comment if the prevailing discourse wasn't "clanker is a slur (and that's okay)".

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But that's a slur that does hurt people. Clanker doesn't, whether said in public or privately. I also agree that it's not really a slur since it's targeted at unfeeling robots. I think people mostly just call it a slur because it's funny (to them, though morally classifying it as such is murky).

[–] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

I think people mostly just call it a slur because it’s funny

That's the part that really gets to me, like, why is it funny???

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So you're offended by the idea of a word being offensive.

[–] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Did I say I was offended?

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Racists just say the n word.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

It's being used by "I'm not racist but..." types a lot

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

It's being used by "I'm not racist but..." types a lot, unrepentant racists just use slurs

[–] andicraft@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 days ago

i have no idea if that's the case but i am also very certain that's not the context the word is being used in here.

[–] hesh@quokk.au 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Never heard of that, is that a thing? Racists even ruin AI hate smh

[–] Yttra@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Back when it started gaining popularity last year or so it happened a lot.

There was, for example, a tweet (or maybe recycled tiktok, I don't use those sites and get their content second hand) about a lady re-enacting Civil Rights* era racism in a diner, replacing African-Americans with robots and creating some uncomfortably creative insults. It just started to feel gross very quickly...

[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

No, you see humans are all the same race. The term we use to describe the derogatory use of terms towards other humans is racism, but that's not really what we're doing, but that's the word we have accepted. I don't like dogs - that's racism. I don't like AI - that's not even racism computers aren't a race