The term is used to insult AI chatbots and platforms like ChatGPT for making up information and generating ‘slop’. Some believe we should stop using it, pronto Name: Clanker. Age: 20 years old.

"'Clanker' is a derogatory slur that has become popular in 2025 as a way to express disdain for robots and artificial intelligence." As flagged by a user on the r/Artificial subreddit, searching the ...

In the television show “Battlestar Galactica,” they were called toasters. In the film “Blade Runner,” skinjobs. Now in the culture war against robots and artificial intelligence chatbots, a new slur ...

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Naturally, we had to rummage through our human-made history to come up with a name to mock them. We didn’t look far. We found Clanker, from Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008). The term was used for ...

The term, which was popularized by a “Star Wars” show and is rooted in real frustrations with technology, has become a go-to slur against artificial intelligence and robots. Credit...Timo Lenzen ...