Tag: slurs
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With the rise of AI-generated video, there’s a new place on the Internet to check whether the cute puppy video your grandma posted on Facebook is real: the subreddit r/isthisAI. Participants there have not only been discussing the origin of videos, but they’ve also been dipping into philosophy of language. I recently spotted a debate…
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Here are three words that would help media and society think more carefully about difficult cases involving slurs and disability: utter, use, and mention. They don’t mean the same thing. Someone who utters a word produces it. A person who is under anesthesia, whose brain is stimulated by a neurosurgeon, might utter the word “stupid.”…