The Hottest New AI Chatbot Is Just a Guy Answering Your Questions
An artist and former Google employee named Tucker Bryant built a chatbot called ChatTJB that is actually just himself answering people's questions. He says the project is meant to make people think about the current moment in AI development.
Why this matters: The joke lands because it is not really a joke. People talk to AI chatbots assuming there is something sophisticated behind the interface. Here, it was a person. Most users probably could not tell the difference, and that is the whole point. It is worth thinking about how much trust people extend to a chat window just because it looks like a product. The interface does a lot of work that the technology itself does not always earn.
Who should care: General readers · AI governance · Policy
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