By The Verge | Created at 2026-08-15 22:46:42 | Updated at 2026-08-15 23:44:24
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Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you submit an answer. But the important thing is that there’s a human on both sides of the equation. Prompts can request a response as text or image, and then whoever is roleplaying as the AI gets 150 seconds to respond.
Just like a real LLM, Your AI Slop Bores Me works on a sort of token system. Requests cost credits, and to earn credits you have to jump onto the AI side and answer some of your own. You can also just wait as you get one free request every two minutes. But, as fun as it is to drop a question or an image request into the chatbox and see what comes back, the real joy is in pretending to be a chatbot. Sure, there are way too many people asking for drawings of obscure anime characters that are nearly impossible to pull off with the bare-bones MS-Paint-like tool in two-and-a-half minutes. But that’s part of the fun, trying to work within the extreme limitations presented while trying to maintain the illusion that you’re an AI. If a request doesn’t appeal to you, you can always skip it.
There’s even a Discord server and a Hall of Fame. The latter of which includes an alarmingly good Starry Night rendition. Yes, the ads are a little overboard and obtrusive,
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