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Designed a sticker to slap on IRL AI bullshit
(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Had this printed so I can do my own little protesting. Here's a high-res image if you want to print your own:
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)".
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).
That's the part that really gets to me, like, why is it funny???