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Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot

The Verge Terrence O’Brien

There’s a new game where people pretend to be an AI chatbot. It turns AI slop into a human-on-human contest, with 150 seconds on the clock.

Based on reporting by The Verge, Terrence O’Brien — read the original for the full story.

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Your AI Slop Bores Me is a tiny, mean little joke aimed straight at chatbot culture, and that’s why it works. The setup is almost absurdly simple: one tab for humans, one tab for “LARP as an AI.” You type in a request on one side, and someone else — also human, just playing machine — has to answer on the other.

The prompts can ask for text or an image, so the roleplayer has to improvise in whatever format the request demands. They get 150 seconds to respond, which is long enough to think and short enough to make the whole thing feel a bit frantic. The joke is that the system looks like an AI interface, but every part of it is still just people doing the work themselves.

There’s even a token-style economy to keep the loop going. Requests cost credits, and the way to earn more is to jump over to the AI side and answer some prompts yourself. If that sounds too effortful, there’s also a slower path: one free request every two minutes.

It’s a small design, but it lands because it flips the usual AI pitch on its head. Instead of pretending the machine is magical, it makes the human labour obvious and turns the whole thing into a bit of performance art with a timer attached. The result is less “future of software” and more “let’s all have a laugh at the bot.”

My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting

This is the healthiest way to deal with chatbot hype: stop worshipping it and make it sweat. The industry keeps selling automation like a miracle, so a little human cosplay as an AI is exactly the right amount of disrespect. Also, anything that exposes the credit-and-wait ritual behind these systems deserves a medal and a snack.

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