Anyone else bothered by ape being overwhelmingly derogatorily slang for black people?

Seems like it's a doubly offensive term.

Are there better terms, less encumbered by bigotry, while still covering the "meat space" quality to this development approach?

Racism sucks and I'm bothered by it tremendously. For example the dog whistles in bored ape yacht club were obnoxious to say the least. But I don't think this is that. This is a silly satire on the ways people are getting tripped up on a fallacy, taking the concept of "ai" as being an autonomous force separable from people way too seriously. It's not of course. It's another iteration of the same old tools.

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