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the article cited some black creators (also definitely at least partially motivated by clicks, to be fair) describing how hurtful it was to see jokes about apartheid America being made light of by just saying clanker instead of rhe N-word in very specific things to anti-black pre-civil-rights-racism

the problem here is racism, not hating LLMs. no doubt there is plenty of cracker scum who use the term clanker because it makes them feel like they're getting away with saying the n word

that said, i don't think it's fair to conflate "using the term clanker bc LLMs are bad" with "using the term clanker bc you're a racist who simply can't avoid conflating bad things with black peolle"

i still think there's some value in using as derogatory a term as possible for LLMs, just to discourage people from using them. they should not be allowed to be perceived as cool or good or useful in any way