'Clanker' is social media's new slur for our robot future

Well, all right. But I don't want anyone to think we're robosexual or anything, so if anyone asks, you're my debugger.
- Oh my god they were debuggers!

Pure propaganda. "Make the people who don't believe in AI Genies sound like bigots, say they have slurs."
You can tell when boomer americans try to make up something "the internet is doing" because it always sounds like some 1900s huckster shit they saw on TV between paint chip snacks
- I have seen absolutely nobody refer to the chatbots as "clanker". Notice how this so called 'criticism' of the AI future still accepts as true the same premise the AI fanatics are pushing, they just hold a flashlight under their chin and go, "and it's evil!!!!"
  I don't think statistical word generator is as useful as all the investor types seem to think it is, and they're gearing us up for an unthinkably massive market correction in the near future. That's a real criticism of AI.

Slur requires a group of disparaged people to whom the slur is targeted. Beep-boops with no intelligence ain't fucking people.

He calls me clanka, he calls the other kids clanka, he calls himself clanka. All the time. "Clanka this", "Clanka that", "Clanka, please", "removed clanka", "Clanka, have you lost your mind?", "Clanka, check that ho", "Clanka, you bullshit" and "Break yourself, clanka". He says it so much, I don't even notice it anymore. Last week in lunch, Optimus said to a classmate, "Can a clanka borrow a french fry?" And my first thought wasn't "Oh, my God. He said the word, uh, the C-word". It was now "How is a clanka gonna borrow a fry?" "Clanka, is you gonna give it back?" I'm telling you, my inside voice didn't talk like that before he got in my class.

Elon Musk's Optimus robot has been coming to work in factories "by the end of the year" for over five years now.
It's just another unsubstantiated promise he reuses every year just like the long promised full autonomy of his self-driving cars.
- I'm actually surprised he hasn't started working on Fusion since that's similarly always just a few years away. It has been since the 1960s.

I don't often use the word "cringe", but IMO this warrants it. This silliness is going to discredit attempts at serious conversation.

if robots gain personhood, it's not the robot body that gains personhood. it's the robot mind, aka. the computer.
imo personhood is tied to responsibility. if machines can be responsible, they can be persons.
consider that a lot of organizations already have legal personhood, including corporations, non-profit foundations, and cities/states.

Sounds like the 'clank' slur from the Deus Ex universe.
- Counting the days till conservatives start flying Knights Templar uniforms.

Inside me there are two tech nerds. One is optimistic towards new tech and has the clanka pass. The other is kicking the dominos robot calling it a clanker

I and at least two other people once called robots "tin cans" on social media. Can mashable turn that into a "news story", too?

If we end up with Star wars robots that would be quite fun actually. They're basically more comedic than they are dangerous.
- The KX units would probably disagree. Love the design of them, like a robotic overweight Mafioso.

This DEFINITELY gunna get cꝏpted by rightshits (if it hasn't already)
Just sincere enough to not be obvious satire , peops outright saying they're gonna be "robophobic" (sadly don't think they're joking) , probably using mass AI panic to recruit peops rightward … writings on the wall
So many peops gonna be radicalised into ecofascism (if not just regular degular fascism) it's scary . Don't think this funny at all