San Francisco 'AI' Chatbot Actually Manually Responded by One Person
The ChatTJB chatbot in San Francisco has been revealed to be manually answering all prompts by artist Tucker Bryant, peaking at 5,000 queries per hour. The project was promoted through billboards as 'AI-driven', but the actual 'AI' refers to an ordinary individual, with Bryant personally handling requests until the traffic became overwhelming, positioning it as an art project satirizing the current AI craze. This incident reinforces the narrative of the gap between AI promotion and real capabilities, shifting attention towards human simulation and ironic projects, while the mystique of purely algorithmic chatbots is relatively pressured. Source: Public Information
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Tucker Bryant, a former Google employee and artist, intentionally creates a contrast by using manual responses to mimic mainstream AI chat tools through physical billboards and website interfaces, revealing the public's automatic trust in the 'AI' label. His approach focuses on low-tech, high-concept: relying solely on one person's real-time input without depending on models, aiming to satirize algorithm worship and the phenomenon of 'cognitive surrender' through extreme manual methods, while testing personal limits under traffic surges. Similar cases can be seen in early internet pranks or conceptual art challenging technological myths, as well as current anti-trend projects amidst the flood of AI advertising, with the industry in a phase of both technological worship and skepticism. Essentially, it is a reverse experiment of technological substitution: simulating AI output purely with human effort, where the mechanism is that exposing the interface and brand can create an illusion of intelligence, making true computational power secondary. ABAB News · Cognitive Laws 1. The most AI-like is often the most human. 2. 5,000 queries per hour is a person's limit, and also the daily routine of algorithms. 3. When chatbots need to sleep, the illusion of intelligence is shattered.