Slurs are used to show distain and disrespect. Thats why it is bad to use slurs for human characteristics like race or gender, and harmless to use slurs for robots.
Yeah, robots and LLMs don’t give a shit because they don’t think. Which makes it even weirder to try and “demean” it.
People could insult them normally: call them idiotic wastes of water, energy, and investment but they choose to create slurs that the LLMs can barely parse, let alone internalize. Robots can’t think nor have conceptions of themselves as anything that a slur can drag them down from. Which means the slur is entirely self-serving for the speaker. What need is the compulsion to use slurs, even devoid of a valid target, serving? At best, it’s flirting with taboos because they’re forbidden, like a kid puffing on candy cigarettes.
Also this isn’t a critique against your reply, just sharing a correction, but “distain” is so archaic that I think you meant “disdain”. Pardon if you did mean “distain”; it just struck me as odd.
Slurs are used to show distain and disrespect. Thats why it is bad to use slurs for human characteristics like race or gender, and harmless to use slurs for robots.
Yeah, robots and LLMs don’t give a shit because they don’t think. Which makes it even weirder to try and “demean” it.
People could insult them normally: call them idiotic wastes of water, energy, and investment but they choose to create slurs that the LLMs can barely parse, let alone internalize. Robots can’t think nor have conceptions of themselves as anything that a slur can drag them down from. Which means the slur is entirely self-serving for the speaker. What need is the compulsion to use slurs, even devoid of a valid target, serving? At best, it’s flirting with taboos because they’re forbidden, like a kid puffing on candy cigarettes.
Also this isn’t a critique against your reply, just sharing a correction, but “distain” is so archaic that I think you meant “disdain”. Pardon if you did mean “distain”; it just struck me as odd.
Do you think the point of the slurs is to insult the llm itself?? No… its to communicate to other humans that you dislike LLMs.