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Reminds me of this:

I think atproto is a good protocol, but god bluesky-the-company is dogshit.

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (21 children)
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I think everyone can agree on "this is a slur that we took from StarWars to be derogatory and justify our distaste and opposition to genAI", it's just that some people think that's a bad thing?

Like it appears some people think using the n-word is bad because it's Bad™, not because there's an actual dehumanising effect on a group of people. What's your argument, that we're dehumanising Grok? Ye because it's not a human! "But if it was about the Jews it'd be bad" ye and if my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike, what the fuck is your point?

As for the origins I also think it is very important that the word is "clanker" from StarWars, since their droids are not sentient, whereas both "toaster" and "skinjob" are actually used as a hateful term towards sentient beings. BSG goes out of its way to drive in the fact that genociding Cylons would also be bad, actually. The sentience of "skinjobs" is like the whole point of Blade Runner.

[–] Pieplup@lemmy.ml -2 points 5 days ago

The word isn't the issue it's the way people use it. It's often used as a thinly veiled excuse to be racist.. Like making youtube shorts where it perfectly depicts very racist stereotypes but i'ts about ai so ti's okay. This is inevitably how words like this end up. Especially if they ever get mainstream. Your intentions can be whatever, but like. Sociologically speaking this is how a term like this would always end up bieng used by some people as an exucse to perform racism but under the tehin guise of it acutally beinga buot rovbots not black people.

Here's a video talking about it.

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