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Toaster is so much better than clanker in my opinion.
“Clanker” just feels forced on every level. Star Wars has awful worldbuilding down to the in-universe jargon.
Clankers? (answered, thanks all)
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.
A derogatory term that some have started using to refer to gen AI slop and the like.
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.
not a slur
a slur for robots
It gave me pause too. But, wikipedia again:
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.
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.
