• fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    i don’t love that clanker has been gaining traction because i have friends (plural) who identify as robots (or similar) and i feel like clanker as a perjorative is much more likely to affect them than a generative AI

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        1 month ago

        no. you’ve heard of furries, right? it’s not really that much of a leap from there to think a person would identify with mechanical things or robots

        and like i said, clanker is not going to affect an LLM, but it could affect these sorts of people

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          me being nitpicky, feel free to ignore

          no. you’ve heard of furries, right?

          as a furry, i identify with anthropomorphic animals, not as one. the term you’re looking for is therian, or perhaps otherkin. identifying with mechanical things or robots is different as identifying as one.