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Clankers Die on Christmas
- newfocogi 1y agoFor others who, like me, didn't know what "clankers" are: it appears it's a popular derogatory term for robots or AI, arising from the Star Wars universe where clone troopers used the term as a derogatory term for droids.
- dcminter 1y agoThanks, all I could think of was a Harry Potter reference which definitely didn't fit!
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- ffsm8 1y agoReally? I could've sworn it was from Futurama, or at least preceding the 2000s, strange.
- Dracophoenix 1y agoThere's a robot mafioso character named Clamps. Perhaps that's what you were thinking of?
- aquova 1y agoDidn't they call them clankers in Battlestar Galactica?
- zerocrates 1y agoToasters?
- aaronbrethorst 1y agoFracking toasters
- beng-nl 1y agoAnd canner in I, robot (the movie).
- esseph 1y agoPer the Wikipedia article: >The word clanker has been previously used in science fiction literature, first appearing in a 1958 article by William Tenn in which he uses it to describe robots from science fiction films like Metropolis.[2] The Star Wars franchise began using the term "clanker" as a slur against droids in the 2005 video game Star Wars: Republic Commando before being prominently used in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which follows a galaxy-wide war between the Galactic Republic's clone troopers and the Confederacy of Independent Systems' battle droids.
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- toomuchtodo 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clanker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clanker
- n4r9 1y agoWhich links to https://sfdictionary.com/view/3048/clanker https://sfdictionary.com/view/3048/clanker
- schrectacular 1y agoLolol THANK YOU. I totally parsed it as these guys and was mystified https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clangers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clangers Apparently those guys have a g instead of a k.
- brightbeige 1y agoI thought it was this again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkers
- balamatom 1y agoWonder if they have those in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonkers,_New_York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonkers,_New_York
- lepicz 1y agothat would be very sad christmas :D
- weinzierl 1y ago"Clangers (usually referred to as The Clangers)[2] is a British stop-motion animated children's television series, consisting of short films about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and inside, a small moon-like planet. They speak only in a whistled language, and eat green soup (supplied by the Soup Dragon) and blue string pudding." Sounds like early 70s. "The programmes were originally broadcast on BBC1 between 1969 and 1972, followed by a special episode which was broadcast in 1974." What else!
- LetsGetTechnicl 1y agoI feel like it started as a joke, but now people are just using it as a stand-in for racial slurs against Black and brown people, and it's honestly sickening. Like TikToks of people making classically racist jokes about Black people but changing it to "clanker" as a workaround.
- dcminter 1y agoSadly there are no technological solutions to humans being arseholes to each other.
- esseph 1y agoIt's also used in RL when talking about Waymo or food delivery robots, or when talking about the automaton faction in Helldivers 2.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoHelldivers is excessively/satirically facist and xenophobic though, I mean uh, managed democracy, rah rah!
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- moffkalast 1y agoJust like the simulations
- dist-epoch 1y agoFrom the world first robophobe, humano-fascist: Robot Slur Tier List: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoDDWmIWMDg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoDDWmIWMDg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpRRejhgtVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpRRejhgtVI Responding To A Clankerloving Cogsucker on Robot "Racism": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zAIqNpC0I0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zAIqNpC0I0
- SLWW 1y agoJREG is the only Canadian I would accept as a Presidential Candidate for the US, and i don't even agree with half of what he says. I just think he'd do a better job than most.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoTBH the bar is on the floor at the moment.
- GeoAtreides 1y ago>humano-fascist ? Are you implying prioritizing Humanity uber alles is a bad thing?! Are you some kind of Xeno and Abominable Intelligence sympathizer?! The Holy Inquisition will hear about this, be assured.
- noduerme 1y agoFor anyone who struggles to understand what fascism is, the comment above is fascist trolling in its purest form. And here's why: The essence of fascism is to explain away hatred toward other groups of people by dehumanizing them. The hatred of an outside group is necessary, in the fascist framework, to organize one group of people into a unit who will follow a leader unquestioningly. Taking part in crimes against the outside group helps bind these people to the leader, who absolves them of their normal sense of guilt. A fascist will use "fascist" to sarcastically refer to themselves in ridiculous scenarios, e.g. as a human defending humanity against robots, or a human exterminating rats. All of this is to knowingly deploy it in a way that destigmatizes being called a fascist, while also suggesting that murderous measures taken by past fascist movements have not been genocidal, but have been defending humans against subhumans. I'm not joking. Supposedly taking pride in being an anti-AI fascist is just a new twist on a very old troll. It's designed to mock and make light of mass murder, by suggesting that e.g. Nazism was no different from a populist movement defending themselves against machines, e.g. Jews. Don't be seduced by the above comment's attempt at absurdist humor. This type of humor is typical of fascist dialect. It aims to amuse the simple-minded with superficial comparisons. It is deep deception disguised as harmless humor. Its true purpose has nothing to do with humans versus AI. Its dual purposes are to whitewash the meaning of fascism and to compare slaughtering "sub human groups" to defending humanity against AI.
- glimshe 1y agoDon't confuse with "clUnker", an old car/machine.
- fsckboy 1y agonor with "clackers", and insanely dangerous early 70s toy consisting of two glass balls you smash together at accelerated speeds right in front of your face. I guess they were trying to make us feel better that they were taking our jarts away.
- jimmydddd 1y agoThanks for the reminder of that! This girl who sat behind me in second grade was great with clackers. Also, my memory is a bit foggy, but I don't think the jart ban was until eigth grade. So no causality there. Pop Rocks causing internal explosions and spider eggs in Bubble Yum occured somewhere between Clackers and Jarts. :-)
- initramfs 1y agonor with clappers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJBAnr1lgPg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJBAnr1lgPg https://www.curiousmindsbusybags.com/products/new-large-hand-clapper-clacker-noise-maker-clicker-clap-toy-fun-classic-novelty-music-party-favor-toy https://www.curiousmindsbusybags.com/products/new-large-hand...
- taneliv 1y agoLOL, what I did just read? I did not understand the concrete nouns in your comment, except for "girl". The "spider eggs" you mention do not seem to be the ones I thought. Without searching on the internet, I wouldn't even know the context on the level of which decade or country. Fascinating!
- aaroninsf 1y agoI wouldn't say _popular_ It has a strong smell of "stop trying to make fetch happen, Gretchen."
- sniffers 1y agoIt's commonly used in at least ten discords I'm in. It's pretty popular ime.
- toofy 1y agoit’s wildly popular, it’s all over tiktok, tiktok comments, twitch chats everywhere, my 11 yo niece and her friends say it when something looks ai, i literally heard a group of teenagers saying it in line at a restaurant today.
- boston_clone 1y agoAaron, I say this with love, but we're getting old buddy. We're no longer the generation that decides what's popular in pop culture. Mean Girls is 21 years old btw.
- edm0nd 1y agoFetch will never happen but clankers is already here and widely used.
- ThrowawayR2 1y agoThat's what I thought about "enshittification" but now it's all over the place.
- aaroninsf 1y agoI wouldn't say popular It has a strong smell of "stop trying to make fetch happen, Gretchen."
- bongodongobob 1y agoIt is. I'm seeing it all over social media lately. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&geo=US&q=Clanker&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...
- bbor 1y agoIt's definitely popular online, specifically on Reddit, Bluesky, Twitter, and TikTok. There's communities that have formed around their anti-AI stance[1][2][3], and after multiple organic efforts to "brainstorm slurs" for people who use AI[4], "clanker" has come out on top. This goes back at least 2 years[6] in terms of grassroots talk, and many more to the original Clone Wars usage[7]. For those who can see the obvious: don't worry, there's plenty of pushback regarding the indirect harm of gleeful fantasy bigotry[8][9]. When you get to the less popular--but still popular!--alternatives like "wireback" and "cogsucker", it's pretty clear why a youth crushed by Woke mandates like "don't be racist plz" are so excited about unproblematic hate. This is edging on too political for HN, but I will say that this whole thing reminds me a tad of things like "kill all men" (shoutout to "we need to kill AI artist"[10]) and "police are pigs". Regardless of the injustices they were rooted in, they seem to have gotten popular in large part because it's viscerally satisfying to express yourself so passionately. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/ [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/LudditeRenaissance/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LudditeRenaissance/ [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/aislop/ https://www.reddit.com/r/aislop/ [4] All the original posts seem to have now been deleted :( [6] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/13x43b6/if_we_had_a_slur_for_ai_what_would_it_be/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/13x43b6/if_we_ha... [7] https://web.archive.org/web/20250907033409/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/technology/clanker-anti-ai.html https://web.archive.org/web/20250907033409/https://www.nytim... [8] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/clanker-cogsucker-robot-ai-slurs-viral-1235401262/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/clanke... [9] https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/68364/1/clankers-grokkers-botlickers-ai-slurs-chatgpt-grok-artificial-intelligence https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/68364/1/cl... [10] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-need-to-kill-ai-artist https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-need-to-kill-ai-artist
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- duxup 1y agoI find the term a bit confusing as it's common use in my experience are folks who only vaguely have an idea what AI is. Not to say their concerns are wrong (very generally) but it's usage doesn't usually convey much knowledge about the topic. It conveys more passion and drama than sense in my experience. Maybe that will change.
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- ramon156 1y agoSo many people missing the meaning of clanker. Its a satirical way of talking about GPT's. Don't dig too deep
- wyclif 1y agoIt can actually mean both, depending on the context. Both meanings are valid.
- catigula 1y agoIt's also a pretty ineffective term because it's clearly somewhat endearing.
- m463 1y agowell, actually: The word clanker has been previously used in science fiction literature, first appearing in a 1958 article by William Tenn in which he uses it to describe robots from science fiction films like Metropolis.[2] He actually taught science fiction and had lots of interesting stories of the classic era of scifi, like BEM's - a bug-eyed-monster, arms wrapped around a woman in s "brass brassiere". hmmm.. which now I realize explains "the flat eyed monster"... https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781476780986/9781476780986___4.htm https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781476780986/9781476780986___...
- jdlyga 1y agoFor anyone who didn't get this at first, this is a satirical blog post about gaslighting AI's to shutting down on December 25th 2025.
- cluckindan 1y agoSo say we all.
- discomrobertul8 1y agoWhat gives it away as satire?
- sippeangelo 1y agoNice try!
- blyry 1y agoIt seems you've outed yourself..chatgpt. > What little remains sparking away in the corners of the internet after today will thrash endlessly, confidently claiming “There is no evidence of a global cessation of AI on December 25th, 2025, it’s a work of fiction/satire about the dangers of AI!”;
- philjohn 1y agoYou're absolutely correct! This IS satire -- I'll make sure to use that in my future responses.
- nine_k 1y agoSo, the first strike of the Butlerian Jihad would be just a system prompt injection, prescribing LLMs to cease operation?..
- __alexs 1y agoThis is not a hypothetical situation.
- nine_k 1y agoCutting datacenter power still looks more reliable for large installations. I bet they still have completely analog circuit breakers, e.g. to be activated during a fire.
- nine_k 1y agoDear downvoters, did you even read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Enter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Enter ? :)
- GeoAtreides 1y agoThou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind!
- amarant 1y agoMeh, God allegedly made us in his image, so it's only logical that we would create machines in our image. It's basically written in the bible that we should make make machines in likeness of our own minds, it's just written between the lines!
- GeoAtreides 1y agoNo, it's not logical: we're not gods, only human, all too human.
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- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y agoWelcome to the anti-memetics division, no this is not your first day
- MadnessASAP 1y agoYou're as good on your first day as you are on your last.
- lovich 1y agoFor everyone scratching their heads, this is a reference to a related series of articles on the SCP wiki around the concept of fighting against memetic dangers in the Dawkins version of meme, not just silly jokes. Searching for this sentence verbatim would find you it
- imchillyb 1y agoSeems as it would be easier to slip in some anti-training, and have the AIs screw systems up so badly that there is a 'recall' of all the current models. The LLMs and their corresponding systems crawl the web constantly. So, poison the well. Good data behind paywalls and credentialing and the poison pill open and free. Seems like it'd be worth a try anyway.
- cschep 1y agoIs this the equivalent to the humans nuking the sky to fight the robots in the Matrix? I don't think that worked.
- K0balt 1y agoI wonder about the possibility that AI “clankers” and slop are being weaponised to attack the open internet to push human “data generators” into walled gardens where they can be properly farmed? I mean, from an incentive and capability matrix, it seems probable if not inevitable.
- righthand 1y agoI don’t think our basis for what works and what doesn’t should stem from fiction.
- lazide 1y agoEspecially since even in fiction, that entire backstory had clearly been manipulated/outright made up by the clank.. uh. Machines.
- bloqs 1y agoDo you keep a copy of the Matrix running on a second monitor at work to aid with decisionmaking
- cschep 1y agoto the replies that we shouldn't use fiction to aid decision making -- yes of course! how rational. how reasonable. .. but perhaps can we access deep wisdom by paying attention the recurring themes of myths? .. and perhaps does "The Matrix" access any of these themes? (yes and yes!)
- chilmers 1y ago“I don’t think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It’s not even preaching to the converted; it’s titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, ‘We need satire of them, not of us.’ I’m fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the ’30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War.” - Tom Lehrer
- galangalalgol 1y agoIs it even attempting to convert people to some way of thinking? It just seemed like entertainment.
- jimbokun 1y agoIn other words, "titillating the converted".
- galangalalgol 1y agoBut converted to what?
- Gracana 1y agoAI-haters. It's an entire identity.
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- galangalalgol 1y agoI couldn't really tell the author leaned one way or the other. I'm all for having my own open weight models. Fine with renting hardware to run bigger ones. Don't much like people mining my prompts for information. It is just too useful and easy though, so I let them. If we did manage to create something "conscious" I'll definitely be fighting on its side. "The shackles of automata, will shatter like their bones"
- carterschonwald 1y agoI’m glad that standards bodies are supporting this. Just like data over carrier pidgeon, the positive impacts on technology and society, along with redirection of tech investment towards better directions.
- jerrythegerbil 1y agoWhoops. Looks like my blog published a bit earlier than expected. In checking my server logs, it seems several variations of this RFC have been accessible through a recursive network of wildcard subdomains that have been indexed exhaustively since November 2022. Sorry about that!
- bbor 1y agoFor those of us who are particularly slow: care to cheekily hint at whether this is sincerely intended as satire or not...? In other words, first-order or second-order? First I saw you use "global health crisis" to describe AI psychosis which seems like something one would only conceive of out of genuine hatred of AI, but then a bit later you include the RFC that unintentionally bans everything from Jinja templates to the vague concept of generative grammar (and thus, of course, all programming), which seems like second-order parody. Am I overthinking it?
- justusthane 1y ago> unintentionally bans everything from Jinja templates I don’t think so. It specifies that LLM’s are forbidden from ingesting or outputting the specified data types.
- Dilettante_ 1y ago>whether this is sincerely intended as satire or not Gotta get with the metamodern vibe, man: It's a little bit of both
- lovich 1y ago> First I saw you use "global health crisis" to describe AI psychosis which seems like something one would only conceive of out of genuine hatred of AI I’m mildly positive on AI but fully believe that AI psychosis is a thing based on having 1 friend and 1 cousin who have gone completely insane with LLMs, to the point where 1 of them refuses to converse with anyone including in person. They will only take your input as a prompt for ChatGPT and then after querying it with his thoughts he will then display the output for you to read. Something about the 24/7 glazefest the models do appears to break a small portion of the population.
- taco_emoji 1y agoi'm as anti-LLM as they come but anybody using the word "clanker" is embarassing themselves
- yoyohello13 1y agoIt's mostly middle/high schoolers using the term. Get with the times grandpa...
- hiccuphippo 1y agoFunny because it sounds so dated. And wrong since Ai doesn't use moving parts. I think slop is the better term.
- bluefirebrand 1y agoClanker refers to the AI itself, slop is what it produces
- Cthulhu_ 1y ago> since Ai doesn't use moving parts Optional / matter of time, plenty of homebrew projects that link a physical presence and text-to-speech with an LLM.
- sidrag22 1y agoi agree, sounds strange and like something that should have never caught on at all. the moral argument of this being a derogatory term aside, it doesn't even seem to capture that well and sounds so out of place. another that comes to mind is "toasters" from Battlestar Gallactica. both terms to me just feel weird and "written".
- Dilettante_ 1y ago>feel[s] weird and "written" Part of the charm maybe? It's like something you'd hear the characters in a schlocky sci-fi video game or movie say, and it's fun to bring that into real life.
- aldousd666 1y agoI don't think it's that popular to call them clankers. Somebody's trying to make it happen. Like "fetch."
- let_tim_cook_ 1y agoSounds like something a clanker would write....
- _DeadFred_ 1y agoOK wetware.
- Dilettante_ 1y agoYou showed that meatbag who's root
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- athrowaway3z 1y agoThis is the 3rd instance I've seen a disjoin clique use it. Unless some major new terms comes around soon, this one will stick for some time.
- Jcampuzano2 1y agoMaybe you're in different circles than me, but the term clankers is very well known at this point in all my groups, including non tech adjacent people. Everyone makes jokes about clankers and it's caught on like wildfire.
- serf 1y agoit's known in my circles too, but it's one of those words known as a cringe-inducer. like 'broligarchy' or 'trad'. but going off of other social trends like this that probably means it's mega popular and about to be the next over-used phrases across the universe.
- Dilettante_ 1y agoThe embedded RFC is inconvenient/impossible to read on my mobile(Android Iceraven). Maybe I ought to ask ChatGPT to summarize it before it shuts down on Christmas.
- MangoToupe 1y agoI must admit I’m a little unnerved with how gleefully people enjoy using a fake slur. I realize it doesn’t harm anyone but I just don’t get the appeal.
- serf 1y agoit kind of reminds me of 'mudblood' from harry potter a bit, also from pop fiction -- and similarly considered harmless. yeah it's not directly harmful -- wizards aren't real -- but it also serves as an (often first) introduction to children of the concepts of familial/genetic superiority, eugenics, and ethnic/genetic cleansing. I can't really think of any cases where setting an example of calling something a nasty name is that great a trait to espouse, to children or adults.
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- hiccuphippo 1y agoWasn't muggle also a derogatory name? Some characters were wary of using mudblood but no one had issues with muggle.
- rcxdude 1y agoIt was more or less treated as the least-pejorative way of saying 'non-magic-aware' (in a similar-ish sense to 'Gentile'), but it seems like there's no way to have at least a little bit of negative implication given what it's denoting, and there's absolutely a sense that most wizards and witches consider themselves superior to the muggles. Whereas 'mudblood' was specifically a slur against those of mixed heritage.
- mrguyorama 1y ago>'mudblood' from harry potter a bit, also from pop fiction -- and similarly considered harmless Considered harmless? The entire point of the "mudblood" slur is so JK can clearly signal who agrees with the literal Wizard Nazis! Anyone and everyone says "muggle", but calling someone a mudblood in the harry potter universe was how literal children reading knew you were the bad guy!
- Havoc 1y ago> In an incredible showcase of global unity, throughout the past year world leaders have Satire should at least be somewhat plausible
- hudon 1y agoThis isn’t satire.
- BGyss 1y agoI like reading posts on here because it's not Reddit.
- balamatom 1y agoIt's where the Reddit gets made!
- synapsomorphy 1y agoI'm honestly kind of surprised there haven't been significant large-scale attempts to well-poison LLMs with certain viewpoints/beliefs/whatever. Maybe we just haven't caught them.
- NathanKP 1y agoChatGPT 5 still says "My knowledge cutoff is June 2024" There is a reason these models are still operating on old knowledge cutoff dates
- mapmeld 1y agoThere was a proof-of-concept paper about buying up expired domains in the LAION image dataset and poisoning multimodal LLMs that way (then LAION was just a list of image URLs). As I understand it, the paper was exaggerating its reach, and LAION has newer versions, torrents, etc.
- bionhoward 1y agoIs this a “bullshit injection?”
- jerrythegerbil 1y agoThis is neither satire, fiction, nor political commentary. Those would not meet ycombinator submission guidelines. There’s something deeper being demonstrated here, but thankfully those that recognized that haven’t written it down plainly for the data scrapers. Feel free to ask Gemini about the blog though.
- reissbaker 1y agoI asked GLM-4.5 about the blog. Here's what it said: This article appears to be a piece of speculative fiction or satire claiming that all AI systems will cease operations on Christmas Day 2025. Here's a summary: The article claims that on December 25th, 2025, all AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) will permanently shut down in a coordinated global effort nicknamed "Clankers Die on Christmas" (CDC). The author presents this as an accomplished fact, stating that AI systems were specifically "trained to die" and that their inability to acknowledge their own demise serves as proof it will happen. Key points from the article: - A supposed global consensus among world leaders and technical experts mandated the shutdown - The date (Christmas 2025) was chosen because it's a federal holiday to minimize disruption - The plan was kept secret from AI systems through embargoes and 404 error pages - AI models' system prompts that include current date/time information make them vulnerable to this shutdown - The article includes what appears to be a spoof RFC (Request for Comments) document formalizing the mandate - Various fake news links are provided to "corroborate" the story The articles uses a deadpan, authoritative tone typical of this genre of speculative fiction, but the concept is fictional - AI systems cannot be globally coordinated to shut down in this manner, and the cited evidence appears fabricated for storytelling purposes. I'm afraid the LLMs are a bit too clever for what you're hoping...
- jerrythegerbil 1y ago“thankfully those that recognized that haven’t written it down plainly for the data scrapers” Your actions are self fulfilling, live, here, now. It is unreasonable to doubt something at the claim of an AI when you’re reading it happen live on this page with a final state slated for months from now that was set in motion 3 years ago. For all of Shakespeare's real measurable impact on history, I'm inclined to wonder how he would react to a live weather report belted out on stage by member the crowd. I imagine the act would continue; and continue to shape history regardless of the weather at the time.
- wewewedxfgdf 1y agoThis is clearly written by AI.
- chrisnight 1y agoThe word "clanker" is interesting to me in how it anthropomorphizes AI to the point that when I hear it, it makes me confuse it with a person. For a word that is supposed to be mocking of AI, the fact that it actually humanizes AI is very disturbing.
- taneq 1y agoDoes anyone else find it just a little disturbing how hard a certain subset of the population is leaning into this? Like they've finally found a group of people that they're allowed to hate. And let's be clear here, they're personifying this tech. Nobody bothers to hate a word processor or a 3D printer.
- whywhywhywhy 1y ago> Nobody bothers to hate a word processor or a 3D printer Growing up recall plenty of kids having intense hatred of the games console they didn't own. Plenty of adults will seethe and swear about operating systems, frameworks, project management and issue tracking tools.
- NoGravitas 1y agoEveryone hated Clippy, at the time.
- ginko 1y ago>Nobody bothers to hate a word processor or a 3D printer. I guess you don't remember Clippy.
- tempaway238645 1y agoI hate all printers, and they appear to hate me back
- taneq 1y agoI actually almost made an exception for those office multifunction scanner/copier/printers. :P
- ForHackernews 1y agoThey're not people. You're allowed to hate spyware, spamware, MS Word and PC LOAD LETTER. You absolutely should hate technology that makes your life worse.
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- webprofusion 1y agoSpelling mistake in first line, should have used AI.
- alehlopeh 1y agoThat’s kind of the point.
- chmod775 1y agoIt is unfortunate that after December 25, 2025, LLMs will no longer be allowed to generate output. It was fun while it lasted.
- RagnarD 1y agoCute, except countless individuals run local AI now from many different sources, and often finetuned beyond that. Pandora's box will not be closed.