{"id":532144,"date":"2026-03-12T20:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532144\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:22:13","slug":"your-ai-slop-bores-me-gives-you-a-chance-to-see-how-the-sausage-is-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532144\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Your AI Slop Bores Me’ Gives You a Chance to See How the Sausage Is Made"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the overwhelming majority of cases in which it\u2019s used, the term \u201cAI\u201d is a misnomer.<\/p>\n

The label is used pretty much everywhere to refer to large language models, but no matter how much it might feel otherwise, there\u2019s no actual intelligence behind the helpful information on how to carry out mass shootings<\/a> or deeply messed-up pieces of encouragement<\/a> to people contemplating suicide. It\u2019s just an algorithm that\u2019s regurgitating a bunch of stolen training data back at you in a manner that\u2019s creepily reminiscent of actual human interaction.<\/p>\n

\"Ai\u00a9 Screenshot Gizmodo <\/p>\n

This much we know, of course. But then, that\u2019s not to say that every use of \u201cAI\u201d refers to something entirely devoid of intelligence. Take the two opportunists who claim they originally shilled their \u201cAI-driven\u201d note-taking app by pretending to be the AI in question<\/a> and taking the notes themselves, or the people tasked with watching and labeling the footage recorded by Meta\u2019s Ray-Bans<\/a>, or the poor schmucks who were saddled with the job of operating Tesla\u2019s remote-controlled robots<\/a> a couple of years ago. In all these cases, for better or worse, there\u2019s certainly intelligence at work, but it\u2019s just plain old human intelligence\u2014or lack thereof\u2014behind the curtain.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve ever been curious about being someone behind said curtain, your chance has arrived\u2014and it doesn\u2019t even require getting some hellish job at Meta. A site that goes by the name \u201cYour AI Slop Bores Me\u201d gives you the chance to a) pretend to be an AI and answer prompts submitted by other users; and b) submit prompts yourself and see how other people respond to them.<\/p>\n

As one might expect, the entire experience is very shitpost-adjacent: the vast majority of prompts we received asked us to produce drawings of obscure anime-related items that we spent half our allotted time Googling. (You get a maximum of 60 seconds to respond to each request.) Still, it\u2019s weirdly compelling fun to be the anti-Grok for a few minutes:<\/p>\n

\"Your\u00a9 Gizmodo <\/p>\n

The site works on a credit system, but those credits flow the opposite way to how one might expect: instead of getting more chances to ask questions by spending time answering them, you have to spend time asking questions to get more chances to answer them. This raises the question: do a surprising number of people really harbor some deep-seated desire to be modern-day Mechanical Turks? Or are they just getting in some practice for the dystopian future wherein the only jobs left revolve around helping AIs argue with one another?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the overwhelming majority of cases in which it\u2019s used, the term \u201cAI\u201d is a misnomer. The label…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-532144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}