"Name: Clanker. Age: 20 years old. Appearance: Everywhere, but mostly on social media. It sounds a bit insulting. It is, in fact, a slur. What kind of slur? A slur against robots. Because they're metal? While it's sometimes used to denigrate actual robots including delivery bots and self-driving cars it's increasingly used to insult AI chatbots and platforms such as ChatGPT."
"Popular memes and spoof videos tend to treat clanker as being directly analogous to a racial slur suggesting a future where we all harass robots as if they were an oppressed minority. So what? They're just clankers. Naturally, when we trend in that direction, it does play into those tropes of how people have treated marginalised communities before, says linguist Adam Aleksic. I'm not anti-robot; I just wouldn't want my daughter to marry one. Can you hear how"
Clanker is a slur aimed at robots and increasingly at AI chatbots and platforms like ChatGPT. The term originated as a pejorative for battle androids in a 2005 Star Wars game and gained popularity through the Clone Wars TV series before spreading on Reddit, memes and TikTok. The slur targets physical robots such as delivery bots and self-driving cars as well as conversational AIs for making up information, repeating falsehoods, producing low-quality content, or lacking human qualities. Many users express anger at pervasive, intrusive technologies that may threaten employment. Some observers warn that normalizing such insults echoes historical patterns of marginalizing communities.
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