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clanker

Derogatory for robots/chatbots.

First Seen

2005

Context

The term reflects growing societal anxieties about automation and AI's displacement of human labor. Originally from Star Wars media, it went viral in 2025 as a catch-all derogatory term for AI and robots in anti-automation discourse.

A wild word — documented from usage in the field, not coined by Xenolexica.

Culture & Society