alt Hacker NewsYeah, that's a good point. I feel the same about the person who talks that way, too.
I personally refrain from offending people on purpose, but not being a native English speaker sometimes betrays me in judging how offensive a word is perceived by the natives.
From what I've seen, the natives don't generally perceive the word as offensive, as it was originally used in star wars (I believe) against fictional robots, and it has since been used against LLMs and such like. But it just seems a bit distasteful, like using a word for someone to try and offend someone, when they dont understand that word in their native language