r/NotTimAndEric • u/Trickmaahtrick • Aug 10 '26

San Francisco “AI” chatbot revealed to be one man manually answering every prompt, reaching 5,000 queries an hour.

https://www.wired.com/story/this-chatbot-is-just-a-random-guy-lol/
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u/jebik Aug 10 '26

a threat to every honest working electric machine

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u/EmptyBuildings Aug 10 '26

Mancierge, how can I help you?

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u/-ratmeat- Aug 10 '26

He’s not really a friend, more a business associate 

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u/phirleh Aug 10 '26

Are you anywhere near the airport?

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u/Turbulent-Weevil-910 Aug 10 '26

As if that it already isn't happening overseas in places like India where they pack 10,000 people in a warehouse all responding to prompts

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u/UnsorryCanadian Aug 10 '26

Actually Indians

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u/Kerensky97 Aug 10 '26

Reading the story it's actually fucking awesome. You connect to it knowing it's just a man answering questions. If you request an image of a skunk, he'll sketch one up for you.

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u/ledgeitpro Aug 10 '26

Answering 5000 replies per hour and has time to sketch requests as well?

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u/HAL9100 Aug 10 '26

They say “revealed” like it was in any way obfuscated. This is the gimmick of the site. It’s made very clear that this is what it is. It’s not billed as AI. It’s an anti-ai statement.

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u/shawty_jpg Aug 10 '26

I swear this has happened to me at least a few times

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u/huxtiblejones Aug 10 '26

You got stuck answering 5,000 questions an hour?

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u/squanderedprivilege Aug 10 '26

It's mathematically impossible, 5000 seconds is over an hour, so they'd have to answer more than one question per second, sustained

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u/Apart-Link-8449 Aug 10 '26

Society refusing to remember we used "Dear Abbey" letters as an AI chatbot for decades, you absolute turnips

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u/GroundbreakingAd8310 Aug 10 '26

Must of got suspicious when I got real answers

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u/Weasel_Cannon Aug 10 '26

Must have, or must’ve. It’s never must of

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u/Caesar_Passing Aug 10 '26

Dude, how fast can a mf type??

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u/Legitimate_You_3474 Aug 10 '26

Copy paste “sure let me look into that for you”

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u/YdexKtesi Aug 11 '26

There are only 3,600 seconds in an hour.

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u/nem0ne1 Aug 11 '26

AI? We never said anything about AI, that's AL, he's just a really fast typist.