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Xania Monet's music is the stuff of nightmares. Thankfully her AI 'clankers' will be limited to this cultural moment Van Badham

The Guardian

Xania Monet is'a photorealistic digital avatar accompanied by a sound that computers have generated to resemble that of a human voice singing words', writes Van Badham. Xania Monet is'a photorealistic digital avatar accompanied by a sound that computers have generated to resemble that of a human voice singing words', writes Van Badham. Xania Monet's music is the stuff of nightmares. Thankfully her AI'clankers' will be limited to this cultural moment Xania Monet is the latest digital nightmare to emerge from a hellscape of AI content production. The music iteration of AI "actor" Tilly Norwood, Xania is a composite product manufactured of digital tools: in this case, a photorealistic avatar accompanied by a sound that computers have generated to resemble that of a human voice singing words.


'Vibe coding' beats 'clanker' to be Collins dictionary's word of the year

The Guardian

Collins dictionary lexicographers chose'vibe coding' after spotting a sharp rise in its usage. Collins dictionary lexicographers chose'vibe coding' after spotting a sharp rise in its usage. 'Vibe coding' beats'clanker' to be Collins dictionary's word of the year AI-inspired word joins'biohacking', 'Henry' and'broligarchy' on tech-heavy 2025 list "Vibe coding", an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using artificial intelligence, has been named Collins dictionary's word of the year for 2025. Lexicographers at Collins monitor the 24bn-word Collins Corpus, which draws from a range of media sources, including social media, to create the annual list of new and notable words that reflect our ever-evolving language . They chose vibe coding as word of the year after observing a huge increase in usage since its first appearance in February.


Clanker! This slur against robots is all over the internet โ€“ but is it offensive?

The Guardian

It sounds a bit insulting. It is, in fact, a slur. While it's sometimes used to denigrate actual robots โ€“ including delivery bots and self-driving cars โ€“ it's increasingly used to insult AI chatbots and platforms such as ChatGPT. I'm new to this โ€“ why would I want to insult AI? Does the AI care that you're insulting it? That's a complex and hotly debated philosophical question, to which the answer is "no".


The Internet's Newest Slur Has a Bizarre Target

Slate

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. You may have run across the new "slur" making the rounds online, and in middle school lunchrooms: clanker. Borrowed from Star Wars (where battle droids get called "clankers"), the word is supposed to be a knockout insult to robots and A.I. Which would sort of make sense, if machines could actually take offense at anything. Since they can't, clanker is basically an insult that punches at nothing, perhaps the least-effective slur in history. The term, for all its silliness, has inspired a sort of spinoff--"clanker lover"--which, in theory, should carry more of a sting, since it's aimed at actual humans.


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PCWorld

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