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taco_emoji 4 days ago

i'm as anti-LLM as they come but anybody using the word "clanker" is embarassing themselves

yoyohello13 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's mostly middle/high schoolers using the term. Get with the times grandpa...

hiccuphippo 3 days ago | parent [-]

Funny because it sounds so dated. And wrong since Ai doesn't use moving parts. I think slop is the better term.

Cthulhu_ 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> since Ai doesn't use moving parts

Optional / matter of time, plenty of homebrew projects that link a physical presence and text-to-speech with an LLM.

bluefirebrand 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Clanker refers to the AI itself, slop is what it produces

recursive 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some of us are not nearly that easy to embarrass.

nancyminusone 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You sound just like the adults complaining about the things us kids would say when we were young.

Cthulhu_ 2 days ago | parent [-]

Kids these days calling each other "dude", what is the world coming to?

If only there was as much outrage against racial slurs.

sidrag22 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

i agree, sounds strange and like something that should have never caught on at all. the moral argument of this being a derogatory term aside, it doesn't even seem to capture that well and sounds so out of place. another that comes to mind is "toasters" from Battlestar Gallactica. both terms to me just feel weird and "written".

Dilettante_ 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

>feel[s] weird and "written"

Part of the charm maybe? It's like something you'd hear the characters in a schlocky sci-fi video game or movie say, and it's fun to bring that into real life.

curtisblaine 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Moral? They're... programs

sidrag22 3 days ago | parent [-]

seemed like a discussion point in this thread, didnt really care to engage with it, i think it was more about human desire to create a derogatory term to describe something they dislike more so than an accusation of being immoral by using the term. but again, wasnt something i was interested in engaging with much

curtisblaine 2 days ago | parent [-]

> human desire to create a derogatory term to describe something they dislike

Isn't it...expected, calling something you don't like in a derogatory way?