Wild WordCross-Nature
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.
Citation
A wild word — documented from usage in the field, not coined by Xenolexica.
Culture & Society