Last week I heard someone call local LLMs "house clankers" so gonna say there is at least a connection.

The problem is, the copyright advocates already dehumanize the people behind the machines by default, equating them to the machines, so when they use a slur against "machines" they target the people utilizing the machines, not the actual machines.

Using "acceptable slurs" and dehumanizing is the default modus operandi of radlibs.

While I dislike LLMs as much as the next guy, I actually find the use of the term "clankers" to be the opposite of dehumanizing. Admittedly, I think I may be on the more empathetic side, but when I see/hear it used it feels like you are trying to be discriminatory to a race or group of people. I have never considered LLMs or AI to be sentient but that recognition of a pattern triggers an empathy within me that is missing without its use.

ai is not going to kill, the bourgeoisie is.