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‘Your AI Slop Bores Me’ Goes Viral, Turning People Into Chatbots

The meme-born site channels backlash to low-quality AI into a fast-growing, human-run game.

Overview

  • Built by developer Mihir Maroju and launched around March 7, the site routes prompts to random people who have 60 seconds to reply as an “AI” by text or drawing.
  • Players earn credits for each response that can be spent to submit their own prompts, with a bank cap that nudges them to switch roles.
  • Maroju reports roughly 50 million views in a week and peaks near 16,000 concurrent users, prompting rapid server upgrades.
  • To limit abuse, the team deployed automated and manual moderation, a rating system, and fingerprinting, though some users still encounter glitches and slow loading.
  • The project’s name stems from a 2025 reaction-image meme, and widely shared screenshots on X helped propel its sudden reach.