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MeccanicOS: a custom Nix OS Linux Distribution (meccanicos.com)
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[–] 13 points 1 day ago* (4 children)

This comment would make sense if it was in reference to anything resembling a human. It's dehumanizing language for something that people claim exhibits creativity and makes art. Fuck clankers. They're not people. Literally. Data centers are cooking the planet and you're mincing words about how we refer to what will eventually kill us. It's not racism. AI isn't people and LLMs aren't a race. Go all the way away with this.

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  • [–] 7 points 22 hours ago

    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.

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