The Man Who Spent $6,000 to Pretend He Was an AI Chatbot
A San Francisco man named Tucker Bryant gained attention for a unique social experiment where he marketed a chatbot as being 'Powered by AI.' In reality, the 'AI' was just Bryant himself, who manually typed out responses and drew pictures for over 30,000 user inquiries. The project featured a billboard clarifying that the 'AI' stood for 'Average Individual.' This manual labor approach to artificial intelligence highlights the absurdity of current tech trends, as Bryant essentially performed the work of a machine by hand to fulfill thousands of user requests.
TWIST: His name is "Alfred", or "Al". Technically, not false advertising
• AI: Actually Indians • LLM: Low-cost Labour in Mumbai • AGI: A Genius Indian • GPT: Gujarati Professional Typist • API: A Person in India
Speed was 10 tokens per sunday.
You really needed to mark a punchline?
Can we just fucking not AI for one fucking day…
Still I suspect chatgpt just to be a huge Chinese sweatshop somewhere in a basement.
The average individual:
It“s a headline. It must be true.
Yeah. I'm sure he was writing/researching shit extremelly quickly, and drawing AI-level pictures in 30 seconds too.
User: I think my leg is broken AI: Caw da ambalamps