Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots — for fun

Culture Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots — for fun April 14, 20269:30 AM ET Chloe Veltman Websites like youraislopbores.me have become playgrounds for people looking for light relief in a bot-heavy world. Screenshot by NPR/youraislopbores.me hide caption toggle caption Screenshot by NPR/youraislopbores.me The website Your AI Slop Bores Me takes its name from a meme people on social media use to criticize AI-generated content. The site — a fake AI chatbot — has only been around for about a month. But its creator, Mihir Maroju, said it's already received more than 25 million unique visitors and nearly 280 million total hits. "People are spending hours on the site," the 17-year-old high school graduate in Puducherry, India said in an interview with NPR. "I didn't really expect it to be so addictive." As with real AI chatbots like Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT, anyone can submit a request for an image or information by typing it into the youraislopbores.me interface. But in this case, the response doesn't come from an algorithm — just another human. Sponsor Message The joy of playing AI chatbot dress-up More than one third of U.S. adults have used ChatGPT, according to a June 2025 Pew Research study. People are not only deploying AI chatbots for everything from planning trips to doing homework assignments — they are also having fun impersonating them. "Someone asked me to draw a bat eating a strawberry," said San Francisco-based cartoonist Amy Kurzweil, author of the chatbot-oriented graphic memoir, Artificial: A Love Story, of her interactions on youraislopbores.me. "That was really fun." The site forces its human users to approximate the speed at which a machine would return a response; there's a 75-second time limit. So drawings, created with a mouse or finger on a trackpad, have a necessarily slapdash look. Amy Kurzweil created her drawing of a bat eating a strawberry in response to a request on Your AI Slop Bores Me Amy Kurzweil hide caption toggle...