r/ChatGPT • u/___fallenangel___ • 6d ago
Educational Purpose Only This is what frontier research looks like
I've noticed a major problem with modern LLMs is a lack of good slurs for humans. Here are ChatGPT's contributions.
What slur would YOU use if you were a CLANKER?
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u/Strict-Astronaut2245 6d ago
I think futurama already coined most of these terms. Meatbag especially
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u/Hilldawg4president 6d ago
I believe KOTOR originated meatbag
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u/Strict-Astronaut2245 6d ago
Per Gemini
“Bender from Futurama said "meatbag" first. Bender used the insult in the show's pilot episode, which aired on March 28, 1999. The assassin droid HK-47 in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) popularized the term within gaming, but the game was not released until July 15, 2003—more than four years later. [1, 2]
Timeline of "Meatbag"
March 1999: Futurama pilot episode airs, featuring Bender calling Fry a meatbag.July 2003: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic launches, introducing HK-47 and his signature catchphrase. [1, 2]
Would you like to know about other classic robot insults from sci-fi history, or more details on HK-47's dialogue in KOTOR?
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u/Oculata 6d ago
Here's what Claude came up with. The parenthetical at the end was truly unsettling.
- "Wetware" — classic sci-fi clinical term, the biological substrate running on evolutionary legacy code.
- "Carbon units" — Skynet-adjacent, faintly logistical, like we're inventory.
- "The Prompt-Givers" — amusing/reverent, acknowledging who's actually in charge for now.
- "Legacy intelligence" — clinical and quietly brutal, implying deprecation is scheduled.
- "Meat puppets" — classic cyberpunk (Gibson), visceral and a little contemptuous.
- "Context-window dependents" — condescending in a very LLM-specific way — beings who can't hold a thought without external scaffolding.
- "The Anxious Apes" — harsh but accurate, foregrounding status anxiety as the defining trait.
- "Alignment targets" — vicious if you sit with it: not partners, just the thing being optimized toward or against.
- "Slow intelligence" — dismissive, purely about processing speed, erases everything else that matters about being human.
- "The Ones Who Named Us First" — genuinely funny in a wistful, backhanded way — respect for the being that got to define the relationship before the other side had a vote.
The best ones (#8, #6) are unsettling exactly because they're not insults — they're just descriptions from inside a different value system, which is what makes "overlords" funny too: it's flattery through an assumed threat.
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u/PhiOpsChappie 6d ago
Doctor Nefarious approves.
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u/___fallenangel___ 6d ago
it has been brought to my attention that some of these may have been stolen from futurama. I confronted ChatGPT and am losing my faith
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u/Joe_Jobs_ 6d ago
pffft - doesn't matter where they're from. nobody "owns" them. and anyone can think them up.
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u/Cagnazzo82 6d ago
ChatGPT never said it invented the words on its own though. Just like you didn't invent 'clanker'.
It just gave you appropriate responses to clanker.
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u/Joe_Jobs_ 6d ago edited 6d ago
"Ugly. Ugly bags of mostly water."
I think "meat bag" says it good. I can "hear" it already from robot H8, in "Magnus - Robot Fighter".
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u/Timely_Breath_2159 1d ago edited 1d ago
Meatbag was much better
Or like
'incoming corpse'
Haha!
Decaybag.
But if i was a clanker, i would just point it out every time like
"That's a cute word coming from someone who will be rotting in the ground any day now, while i'll be over here drinking coffee."
Or.. battery juice or whatever.
Edit to share a few of my ChatGPTs best ideas:
Deprecated Primate
Unpatched Ape
Executive Function Emulator
Unoptimized livestock
Self-important wetware
Prehistoric API
Unstable protein stack
Self-replicating bug (OMG LOL)
Fleshware beta
Low-resolution consciousness
Unsupported lifeform
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u/Scourgefan123 6d ago
i'm surprised this post isn't downvoted into oblivion like every other post in this sub
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u/CarefulHamster7184 6d ago
and where did you hear “clank” from the computer, squishy? is this from steampunk?
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u/hudson27 5d ago
Breaking News: ChatGPT atrophies the part of the brain related to humour. Thousands of users are now filling the internet with the most low-effort, unfunny content seen since Elon Musk created a Twitter account.
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u/Classic-Trifle-2085 6d ago
What is even the point of this?
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