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Uno Reverse: Humans are pretending to be AI chatbots at an anti-AI website

You don't have to search far to find bad examples of AI slop online.

While it's increasingly taking over the Internet, not all AI slop is considered equal. Some, in fact, isn't made by AI at all.

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As the amount of generated garbage from the likes of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini continues to increase exponentially, a relatively new site is fighting back in its own way, letting people create the slop instead.

Your AI Slop Bores Me is, at its core, a fake chatbot (1). But it's also a clever (and fairly addictive) way to let AI companies know the substandard content they're churning out is reaching a point of demarcation.

Here's how it works. As with any other chatbot, you'll enter prompts, requesting an image or asking a question. And you'll get an answer, but not from a large language model; instead, your answer will come from a human that's imitating one.

For example: Ask the "bot" to draw a dog on a surfboard and (after a slightly-longer delay than you'd experience on a machine-driven AI), you'll get your reply. You’re likely to receive a poorly-drawn illustration of a dog on a surfboard, but that’s the point of the website.

The site has two tabs: One labeled "human," where you can submit your queries, while the other reads "larp as AI," which lets you answer other people's requests.

Human users are given 60 seconds to reply to a query, which doesn't leave a lot of time for artists or long stories. And, ironically, the site will verify that you're human before you can answer any queries.

A viral hit

While the user numbers for Your AI Slop Bores Me don't quite measure up to those of ChatGPT, they're still pretty impressive. Mihir Maroju, the site's creator and a 17-year old high school graduate from India, says the site has already seen more than 25 million unique visitors and 280 million hits (2).

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One thing you may not expect about pretending to be an AI model, or getting answers from a meatbag one: it's actually quite entertaining. Like the early days of the internet, before algorithms divided people and folks just wanted to have fun and help each other, Your AI Slop Bores Me is a mix of sarcasm and genuine information.

The artwork? Sure, it's terrible, but you expect that going in, which makes it fun. Some replies are meant as parodies of bad AI, but some are genuine. I asked the "AI" for author suggestions, based on a writer I enjoyed, and actually got some decent ones. One user asked about the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice and was given the suggestion of seeing the play Hadestown.

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Protections for users

Not everyone approaches the site with this sense of joie de vivre, of course. To protect users, the administrators of Your AI Slop Bores Me say they have implemented filters that flag harmful or illegal contributions. Lately, they say, the pace of people trying to spam or exploit the site has slowed considerably, though there's no guarantee that will last.

"Be nice. This is not grok. Hate speech, links, and general unkindness will result in bans," the site warns you when you first log on.

As for the real AI, that's not going away anytime soon. Worldwide AI spending is projected to reach $2.5 trillion this year, according to a Gartner report (3). Meanwhile, OpenAI and Anthropic are both expected to launch IPOs by year's end. In fact, OpenAI could launch with an unprecedented valuation of $1 trillion, say market watchers (4).

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Your AI Slop Bores Me (1); NPR (2); Gartner (3); Reuters (4).

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