Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against an artificial life form or clanker on the basis of their membership in a particular machine or robotic group
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A lazy, low-effort, or blatantly wrong/hallucinated response from an AI (especially to super basic questions), where the output is obviously wrong garbage smeared across the screen instead of actual thought. From "clanker" (the 2025+ robophobic slur for dumb AIs/robots) + "smear" for the sloppy, half-assed mess. Super common now with overhyped models just phoning it in.
The term also covers the infuriating wall-of-text replies AIs dump on straightforward questions, and overly verbose rambles, these bloated responses are just as useless as the flat-out wrong ones, both hallmarks of peak clank smear.
A lazy, low-effort, or blatantly wrong/hallucinated response from an AI (especially to super basic questions), where the output is obviously wrong garbage smeared across the screen instead of actual thought. From "clanker" (the 2025+ robophobic slur for dumb AIs/robots) + "smear" for the sloppy, half-assed mess. Super common now with overhyped models just phoning it in.
The term also covers the infuriating wall-of-text replies AIs dump on straightforward questions, and overly verbose rambles, these bloated responses are just as useless as the flat-out wrong ones, both hallmarks of peak clank smear.
User: "How do you spell broccoli?"
AI: "B-R-O-C-C-O-L-I-I.
Reply: "Bro that's a textbook clank smear. It's B-R-O-C-C-O-L-I, you absolute tin fool."
Example:
"Dude, we bet on whether Mario's last name is 'Mario' or 'Mario Mario', I say it's just Mario, you say double. Ask the AI: 'What's Mario's full name?'
AI: 'Mario's full name is Mario Luigi Mario, because Italian naming conventions and Nintendo lore imply...'
Me: 'Bro, that's not even close. It's Mario. Just Mario. The AI's got every wiki in existence and still pulls this clank smear out of its ass. Bet's off!! I'm not paying you for stupidity.'"
AI: "B-R-O-C-C-O-L-I-I.
Reply: "Bro that's a textbook clank smear. It's B-R-O-C-C-O-L-I, you absolute tin fool."
Example:
"Dude, we bet on whether Mario's last name is 'Mario' or 'Mario Mario', I say it's just Mario, you say double. Ask the AI: 'What's Mario's full name?'
AI: 'Mario's full name is Mario Luigi Mario, because Italian naming conventions and Nintendo lore imply...'
Me: 'Bro, that's not even close. It's Mario. Just Mario. The AI's got every wiki in existence and still pulls this clank smear out of its ass. Bet's off!! I'm not paying you for stupidity.'"
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Get the clark mug.In a similar vein to Godwin's Law, Clarke's Law dictates that somehow, someway, pedophiles will inevitably be brought up in an online argument. Often a form of simultaneously deflecting and projecting.
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