A Former Google Employee Created An 'AI' Chatbot As A Joke, Now People Really Want In
Tucker Bryant says more than 11,000 people submitted prompts in the first week as his site offers deliberately ordinary answers from a real person.
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The Chatbot That Was Never AI: One Man's $6,000 Billboard Sparked a Human Response Overload
Tucker Bryant stared at the flood of messages. Thousands poured in hourly after his billboard went live in San Francisco. He typed replies himself. Drew crude sketches when asked. Offered advice on birthdays, dinner recipes, even whether to wear short sleeves in the city’s famous fog. Then the volume hit a wall. One person could not keep up. So Bryant paused the site. He put out a call for volunteers. Over 10,000 people signed up to act as “Aver…
A Former Google Employee Created An 'AI' Chatbot As A Joke, Now People Really Want In
Former Google product engineer Tucker Bryant is behind ChatTJB, an unconventional chatbot with an actual human on the other end. Instead of relying on a large language model (LLM), Bryant manually answers users’ questions, offering a deliberately slower and less predictable alternative, Futurism reports. The platform offers a Pro tier, though it won’t generate faster answers like traditional AI subscriptions. Bryant said he had experienced “cogn…
Ex-Google Employee Gets Flooded With Submissions For ‘ChatTJB’ Bot Powered By Just Him
After launching a billboard in SoMa last month, Tucker Bryant, creator and sole operator of the site ChatTJB, which is powered by the “average individual,” began receiving thousands of requests from users seeking advice and volunteers eager to become human “AIs.”
A New 'AI Chatbot' Is Just One Guy Typing as Fast as He Can — He Did It to Prove a Point
For the past week, thousands of people have been chatting with what looks like the internet’s newest AI assistant. The catch? It’s not AI at all. It’s just one guy. Former Google employee and conceptual artist Tucker Bryant is behind ChatTJB, a website advertised by a giant San Francisco billboard proclaiming it as “The leading chat interface powered by AI.” The fine print reveals the joke: in this case, AI stands for “Average Individual.” Every…
There’s just one person behind this viral ChatGPT knockoff
A new chatbot billboard recently appeared in San Francisco. It looks almost identical to the dozens of AI advertisements that have popped up throughout the city in recent years: simple font, a black-and-white color palette, and copy that sounds like it was written by a robot. “ChatTJB.org,” the billboard reads. “The leading chat interface powered by AI.” An asterisk after that final word leads readers to the catch: “AI,” in this case, stands fo…
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