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The "monkeys" here are clearly refering to those kinds with typewriters.
by beepbooptheory 11mo ago
The "monkeys" here are clearly refering to those kinds with typewriters.
- DANmode 11mo agovs…?
- lmm 11mo agoApparently there's some specific US cultural history of people calling black people "monkeys" as a racist insult, and so some people from there immediately leap to assume that any use of "monkey" as an insult is that.
- wilg 11mo agoRidiculous to claim this is a "US-specific thing" https://www.academia.edu/22669911/Comparing_black_people_to_monkeys_has_a_long_dark_simian_history_by_Wulf_D_Hund_and_Charles_W_Mills_?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.academia.edu/22669911/Comparing_black_people_to_...
- DANmode 11mo agoOh wow. Following now. Sheesh.
- ekropotin 11mo agoWhat racism has to do with it? https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=code%20monkey https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=code%20monke...
- brabel 11mo agoYou think that’s an American thing only?? Oh boy, I have bad news.
- blahedo 11mo agoEvidently not "clearly", given the number of people who didn't see it, but that was my first interpretation as well: I took it as an "infinite monkeys" reference that, in context, was probably standing in for "some un-tested gen AI output". Which, clicking on the link, seems to be what happened? Anyway, yes, "infinite monkeys on typewriters" seemed to be the relevant meaning of "monkeys" here.