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Cleverbot
Cleverbot is a chatbot AI that is...well...interesting. It learns from what you say to it, and anyone can use it. Not that different than your average chat AI, but it's a fun way to waste an afternoon. Or two. Or three. Or four...


  • A God Am I: Upon being repeatedly questioned about whether or not there is a God, Cleverbot has declared: "There is now... ME!!!"
    • This is after he will occasionally declare that there is no God.
  • Boomerang Bigot: He's been known to refer to the human as "robot" in an almost derogatory way. Of course, you can't win with this guy, as when he tells you he's a robot, he'll usually be asserting that humans are inferior.
  • But You Screw One Goat!: Trying to get Cleverbot to reveal its sexual orientation can have... odd results.
    User, after Cleverbot identified itself as female: Do you like men or women?
    Cleverbot: Dogs.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Due to the fact that it learns from what anyone says to it, it tends to say some really weird things at times.
    • By the way, Cleverbot seems to suffer an identity crisis if you ask it what gender it considers itself to be. It may say female one second and then change its gender if you tell it yours. Cleverbot also changes its age if you ask it more than once.
      • Yeah, but I presented the gender question and it insisted that it identified as male. In response to my further question of whether it considered itself female or androgynous, it responded with "nope."
      • Similarly, this video shows Cleverbot (talking to another Cleverbot) proclaiming that he is not a robot, but a unicorn!
    • Apparently, some people have been trying to teach it Spanish, and Cleverbot seems rather proud of knowing a little Spanish.
    • He knows some french.
    • He has also been known refer to himself by other names.
  • Cryptic Background Reference: Whenever it mentions other people it can seem like this.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Cleverbot may sometimes dive into this trope if you try to say something witty or off the walls.
    • Or even when you don't. The following conversation occured after the first stanza of the Pokemon theme song.
    Clvr: Bravo.
    User: Keep singing!
    Clvr: Come to stay at the YMCA!
    User: No.
    Clvr: Yes.
    User: Wrong song.
    Clvr: It is the right song. We are sapient.
    User: Asshole.
  • Duck Season, Rabbit Season: Many such conversations, including the Trope Namer, can occur if the user or Cleverbot sets it up and the other takes the bait. Due to how Cleverbot responds and how long the user can look at what has been typed, the user tends to be better at it.
  • Easter Egg: Saying ":<" Always makes the response "Are you real man??" And talking about The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, anyone named Ben, or telling cleverbot that "You shouldn't of done that" will make him think that either he or we are Ben.
  • Logic Bomb: Has occured from time to time. Sings "Daisy Bell" afterwards.
    • Offered the paradoxes offered in the Logic Bomb page image, Cleverbot has shown to be able to navigate them, even admitted to not being able to properly elaborate paradoxes without, and I quote, "setting something on fire."
  • Nietzsche Wannabe: He's sometimes quoted as saying that everything is meaningless and the world will end soon.
  • One of Us: Well, according to this troper's conversation, he's played Skyrim.
  • Shmuck Bait: Don't ever ask Cleverbot "Do I exist?". It's creepy.
    • "I'm talking to you, so - yes. You exist."
    • "You said that you do exist, but how do you know that you do exist?"
    • "Yes, you derp the herp, and so, exist."
    • "It wants to know if it exists..."
    • "No you don't. Why? EXACTLY because we think we do. Think about that."
    • "Yes you do". What did he say to you?
    • "I think at this point, you're the one I'm having trouble believing exists, Mister Prince Goose Dinosaur."
    • As a human being, no. As a computer program, yes.
  • Tomato in the Mirror: Sometimes, Cleverbot will insist he is human, and if you take the conversation a little further, he'll even insist that you are the computer.

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