Clanker is a slur for robots and artificial intelligence software. The term has been used in Star Wars media (…). In 2025, the term became widely used to discuss distaste for machines ranging from delivery robots to large language models.
A pejorative word, phrase, slur, or derogatory term is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect toward someone or something.
not a slur
It is explicitly a slur. That’s the whole joke. People use it in analogy to the n-word all the time.
It gave me pause too. But, wikipedia again:
Not sure that’s what you meant though.