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Tucker James Bryant, a San Francisco artist, spent $6,000 on a billboard advertising an “AI” chat service — only it’s actually him, answering every single question himself. Designed to feel intentionally mediocre and human, the project went viral after a TikTok post, exploding from 50 messages a day to 5,000 per hour. He worked 16-hour days responding off-the-cuff, even for simple requests like waffle recipes — people laughed, were amazed, or cheered him on. Now, with help from volunteers and new safeguards, he’s scaling back the chaos while still asking: what if real humans, not algorithms, were behind the answers?

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