A quirky new website that lets humans impersonate AI chatbots is quickly going viral, drawing millions of users who appear eager to reconnect with a more human version of the internet, according to NPR.
The site, called ‘Your AI Slop Bores Me,’ has racked up more than 25 million unique visitors and nearly 280 million total hits in just about a month, according to its creator, 17-year-old Mihir Maroju in Puducherry, India.
Unlike real AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, the site doesn’t use algorithms to generate responses. Instead, real people answer prompts while pretending to be bots – often under a 75-second time limit that leads to deliberately rough, sometimes hilarious results.
“People are spending hours on the site,” Maroju said, adding he didn’t expect it to be “so addictive.”
The concept taps into a growing cultural moment. More than a third of U.S. adults have used AI chatbots, according to a June 2025 Pew Research study, and many are now experimenting with them for both productivity and entertainment.
On the site, users can request anything from drawings to book recommendations. San Francisco-based cartoonist Amy Kurzweil said she enjoyed sketching a “bat eating a strawberry” for another user and chatting with strangers about what they were reading.
The aesthetic – complete with Comic Sans and early-internet vibes – appears to be part of the appeal. Some users say it evokes a time when the web felt more personal and less automated.
“I do think that people are reaching a point of frustration with the internet being flooded with non-humans,” Kurzweil said.