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noun
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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Someone who gets off to watching chatGBT write their answers or think for them. A second hand bot if you will.
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Someone who gets off to watching chatGBT write their answers or think for them. A second hand bot if you will.
by Unicorn.enchiladas September 29, 2025
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Created by Insomniac Games.
Sequals named Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando (or Ratchet & Clank: Locked and Loaded or just Ratchet & Clank 2) and Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal.
Often abreviated to R&C.
Created by Insomniac Games.
Sequals named Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando (or Ratchet & Clank: Locked and Loaded or just Ratchet & Clank 2) and Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal.
Often abreviated to R&C.
The debate about if Ratchet & Clank or Jak and Daxter is the greater platformer has been rekindled. Let us don flame-retardant garments.
by Sandy87 March 16, 2005
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The series was started by a company called 'Insomniac' but in 2007 a game called Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters was developed for the Playstation Portable (PSP) by a company called High Impact Games.
Ratchet and Clank is a third person action adventure shooting platformer.
The series was started by a company called 'Insomniac' but in 2007 a game called Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters was developed for the Playstation Portable (PSP) by a company called High Impact Games.
Ratchet and Clank is a third person action adventure shooting platformer.
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