Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots — for fun

Websites like youraislopbores.me have become playgrounds for people looking for light relief in a bot-heavy world. Screenshot by NPR/youraislopbores.me

Screenshot by NPR/youraislopbores.me

The website Your AI Slop Bores Me takes its name from a meme people on social media use to criticize AI-generated content. The site — a fake AI chatbot — has only been around for about a month. But its creator, Mihir Maroju, said it’s already received more than 25 million unique visitors and nearly 280 million total hits.

“People are spending hours on the site,” the 17-year-old high school graduate in Puducherry, India said in an interview

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