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by allears 847 days ago
Please define 'woke.' As far as I know, it's simply an insult used by Republicans against Democrats.
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Sorry I don't mean it as insult or to stir up any political arguments. I guess I could have said "personality", but I was motivated to understand this from the Google Gemini controversy.
There are attempts to define it https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke but I don't understand what the relevance to AI is.
It started out having a specific positive meaning of being aware of social injustice and has in the hands of conservatives transitioned to meaning virtually anything I don't like that could even vaguely be attached however tangentially politically to anything left of Hitler or involving anyone except a white conservative man or his christian conservative wife and obedient white children.

If your minority waitress brings you burned toast it might be woke.