Mike Wokosin

A couple parts dad and husband, 1 part Sioux City, 2 parts Chicago and 1 part LA..Add U of Iowa and a Chicago M.B.A. Bring to boil.

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@BaddCompani bwahahaha

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Delicious

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A 17-YEAR-OLD IN INDIA BUILT A WEBSITE WHERE 25 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE SHOWN UP TO PRETEND THEY ARE AN AI CHATBOT

it's called https://t.co/Emmqpmlzel

you open it and there are two tabs. "human" and "larp as ai."

if you click human, you get to type a prompt. anything. "draw me a DJ in space." "should i text my ex." "how many Rs in strawberry."

it costs 1 credit. you start with a few. they refill on a cooldown.

then your prompt gets sent into a queue, and a real person somewhere on earth picks it up and has 60 seconds to answer like an AI would.

no machine learning. no neural net. just some guy in his bedroom typing as fast as he can and pretending he is a chatbot.

the page tells you, verbatim: "you have 60 seconds to fulfill a request before sam altman burns your H100."

if you flip to the other tab and larp as ai instead, you earn credits to send your own prompts. it is a perfectly closed economy of mutual roleplay.

what makes it transcend is the chaos:

> someone asked for a sketch of "a DJ in space" and got something that looks exactly like a real model failing

> someone asked "should i text my ex" and got back confident hallucinated life advice from a stranger

> the fan strategy guides advise you to begin your reply with "as an AI language model, i cannot have feelings, but here is my feeling"

it is the most accurate parody of an AI chatbot ever made, and the AI is humans.

the kid who built it is Mihir Maroju, a 17-year-old high school graduate from Puducherry. he goes by mikidoodle online. NPR confirmed the site hit 25 million unique visitors and nearly 280 million total hits in roughly a month.

"i didn't really expect it to be so addictive," he told them.

no signup. no app. no paywall. you open the URL and you are inside the joke.

the footer just says, in tiny grey text: "humans make mistakes because that's what makes us human."

the internet is healing.

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@zazaxbtt Carolla has turned into the “blowhard” he used to rail against…

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Check out my latest article: Which nations are building the operating system for the Kinetic Economy, where adaptability and velocity win? https://t.co/yvcRr4rZDo via @LinkedIn

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@overton_news you know there may not be as many people that care about who Bill Maher’s friends with as he thinks there is but it makes for good theater I guess.

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@RubinReport Let’s see how this ages

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@MarcoFoster_ @IAmPoliticsGirl @MaryLTrump @WajahatAli agreed with Mary. This is the biggest opportunity in the US has had in a long long time. There are so many things about politics, the judicial system, education, that can be corrected because of all the radical destruction in the last year in three months.

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@CoachTimOlson1 @tburns34 I thought the context was kids and young adults preparing for their future.
Yes, 162 games is a job and yes, with total game action involving hits, runners advancing, and fielding typically totaling less than six minutes per game, lots of time to think.

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@marilynghany @ElephantSignal it was .7

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@BPBartholomew What do you use for the map platform?

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@YahooSports @MarchMadnessMBB You know anything about Iowa Wrestling?

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@gatorsszn how’d that go

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@WritingIlliniFS #FransRedFace

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Peak.

[Curtis Rogers @AKidFromKent]

Never one to give ASU credit for anything but hitting the smoke machine on Bill Self after he’s been ejected is incredible work by that arena worker

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@HalimA60962 G

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@SitDeck very cool..what do you use for the GIS?

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@fivosaresti GTME

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@bilawalsidhu Tell us more…

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@recap_david street