Clanker is a slur for robots and artificial intelligence software. The term has been used in Star Wars media (…). In 2025, the term became widely used to discuss distaste for machines ranging from delivery robots to large language models.
A pejorative word, phrase, slur, or derogatory term is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect toward someone or something.
I disagree so strongly that I actually won’t say the word despite digital people not even existing to be hurt by it. Not slurs against orcs or elves either. Gives me the same feeling as IRL slurs.
Clankers? (answered, thanks all)
not a slur
It gave me pause too. But, wikipedia again:
Not sure that’s what you meant though.
It is explicitly a slur. That’s the whole joke. People use it in analogy to the n-word all the time.
once you admit it’s a slur and let the companies categorize it as such you can’t go back. It’s derogatory, sure, but not a slur imo.
I disagree so strongly that I actually won’t say the word despite digital people not even existing to be hurt by it. Not slurs against orcs or elves either. Gives me the same feeling as IRL slurs.
A derogatory term that some have started using to refer to gen AI slop and the like.
AI bots, but only they get to use it with a hard r. These clankas can be helpful, but they annoy me most days
I feel like people are way too eager to playact racism. Why did we need an N-word for AI?
For me it looks like this: *******
hunter2?
😁
Ai is a tool, not a sentient being. When it provides shitty output either it was a poorly designed tool or it was misused.
So tired of people hating on it with the idea that it will go away. It isn’t going away.
Learn how to deal with it.