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And you didn’t even really ouch on the insane toxicity that’s festered there x_x
They are SO friendly toward racism and bigotry as long as you don’t actually say a slur, but then their moderation is such a mess that you can get perma-banned for a sarcastic joke.
It’s weird as hell to me how many people there jumped on the chance to call things “clankers/clankas”, “wireback”, “tinskin”, etc. So many don’t even try to hide it, lots of comments about using the “hard r” in “clanker.”
It seems like a lot of people who generally seem like they’re not awful racists were just waiting for something they felt it was socially acceptable to throw slurs at, and a lot of those people seem to be the most fond of just making a tiny change to an existing slur against a group of people. I think AI is a terrible thing that will keep making the world worse and think we should get rid of it and all the AI labs, but zero part of me wants to write about how my daughter will never marry a clanker, coping the same racist tones and words that have been used against people forever. Like… they’re not doing that on accident. It’s not a cool nerdy star wars thing. It definitely makes loads of people who have heard very similar things directed at themselves uncomfortable.
And you didn’t even really ouch on the insane toxicity that’s festered there x_x
They are SO friendly toward racism and bigotry as long as you don’t actually say a slur, but then their moderation is such a mess that you can get perma-banned for a sarcastic joke.
It’s weird as hell to me how many people there jumped on the chance to call things “clankers/clankas”, “wireback”, “tinskin”, etc. So many don’t even try to hide it, lots of comments about using the “hard r” in “clanker.”
It seems like a lot of people who generally seem like they’re not awful racists were just waiting for something they felt it was socially acceptable to throw slurs at, and a lot of those people seem to be the most fond of just making a tiny change to an existing slur against a group of people. I think AI is a terrible thing that will keep making the world worse and think we should get rid of it and all the AI labs, but zero part of me wants to write about how my daughter will never marry a clanker, coping the same racist tones and words that have been used against people forever. Like… they’re not doing that on accident. It’s not a cool nerdy star wars thing. It definitely makes loads of people who have heard very similar things directed at themselves uncomfortable.