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Taking after games like Quiplash or Draw Something, users respond to prompts with a paragraph or a drawing. Prompt answers must be completed in 75 seconds or less (though the game itself claims you have 60 seconds), but this brevity doesn't seem to hinder people's creativity. Users can answer up to 5 prompts as an AI, but they're also expected to ask questions back to their fellow humans who are pretending to be AI agents. During my time using the site over 2 days, I've noticed the number of users fluctuating between 11,000 to as many as 16,000. That's more than enough "players" to keep the site thriving. (The site actually seems to crash every now and then, probably due to the huge traffic influx.)
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In an age where AI agents are increasingly polarizing, a lot of people are starting to find AI stale. We have really caught onto tiresome AI syntax. AI loves to phrase things in a, “It’s not X, it’s Y” style. It loves to state that, “It’s not A. It’s not B. It’s C.” Once you notice it, you’ll start seeing it every time.
The dull syntax wouldn’t be so grating if AI actually had a good reputation. These days, however, most people think AI is a net negative, bound to either take their jobs or damage their brains and environment. It’s bad for the planet since it consumes tons of clean water, and folks are furious to discover that electricity costs are rising due to the data centers’ need to run AI. It’s a problem as big as society itself, and it’s not a problem that only one person could stop, and that leads to a feeling of helplessness. It’s obvious that generative AI is also ruining the internet in real time. Hyperrealistic AI videos can fool anyone now, making it so that you really cannot trust a single video or photo you see online. Without any kind of control over generative AI, it’s running rampant, fooling both internet pros and our unsuspecting parents and grandparents.
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If only we could get back to what the internet is actually for: memes and silliness.
The Your AI Slop Bores Me game itself encourages chronically-online, funnily-misspelled meme-speak, like prompting users to “draw homse” as an example prompt (a misspelling of horse or house). Another suggestion is to ask how many R’s are in the word strawberry, a super simple prompt which AI agents have continually gotten wrong. Its tagline on the website reads, “when the LLM so ahh you lowk take over its job.” (If that sentence confuses you, the translation is roughly, when large language models have become so inaccurate to use that humans lowkey do its work instead.) Another tagline celebrates the imperfection: “humans make mistakes because that's what makes us human.”
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Do internet users miss the “good old days?” For many people from the early 2000s, logging onto the family computer in the living room, perusing a half-dozen of their favorite comedy or entertainment sites for an hour before logging off again was a beautiful pastime. Then, people used to go offline for hours, maybe even days or weeks. There is still an appetite for that.
For a lot of folks, the internet used to be fun. Flash games were king, and most of them were free. In 2010, Facebook was comprised of people you knew in real life, and a lot of us were really addicted to Farmville and other Facebook games. And communication was just different back then. Remember saying “brb” or “g2g” when you had to leave an AOL instant message chat? Remember formatting your MySpace page? Spending hours on Tumblr? It seems archaic now, but there was a time before the internet had us in an inescapable clutch. The internet used to be a fun pastime to do in one’s free time. Not anymore.
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Now, it can feel like a chore to keep up with social media (which has its own deleterious effects). Instead of going online for an hour, most of us have our phones perma-glued to our hands and eyeballs 24/7. From the minute we wake up to our phone alarms, to the moment we use our phone flashlight to get into bed after turning off the bedroom lights, we’re using it at all times. That’s because we need it to get in the front door, pay for every purchase, do our jobs, schedule appointments, and complete 2-factor-authentications constantly. You can live life without your smart phone, but it will make every aspect of current day life a lot harder.
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This delightful website’s launch also comes on the heels of an unwelcome AI implementation into the workplace, leaving many workers doing twice, or maybe 10 times, as much work as before. Bosses instruct their workers to use AI in their workflow just to stay on trend, making their workers guinea pigs for the brand new tech that might not even work well for their job field. As some employees navigate their own workday, they’re also expected to manage their AI agents, who make plenty of mistakes. Called “AI brain fry,” it’s just like it sounds: AI is stressing out the very human beings it’s supposed to be aiding. Instead of having a little computer helper, employees find themselves in a managerial role over their own bot, and of course, they’re on the hook if their AI messes up.
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So Your AI Slop Bores Me has made it as one of Twitter’s main characters. Will it actually have staying power? The distinct look of the app, paired with an onslaught of hilarious, memeable answers, makes me think it’ll last a long while. Its arrival is timed perfectly since people are getting pretty sick of AI, and they’re searching for human connection. This is the best mix of both AI hatred and the need to connect.
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