Your AI Slop Bores Me: the game where humans play the AI
Your AI Slop Bores Me answers every prompt with a random human pretending to be an AI. How the credits and timers work, and why it went viral.
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Your AI Slop Bores Me is a web game that parodies chatbots. You type a prompt, and a random human answers it while pretending to be an AI, with 75 seconds on the clock. The programmer Mihir Maroju built it in early 2026, and by March it had logged 50 million hits.
Your AI Slop Bores Me looks like a chatbot and answers like one, except every reply comes from a person. The site calls itself "a real-time multiplayer game where humans role-play as AI", and it has no model behind it at all: another randomly picked user gets your prompt and has 75 seconds to answer in character.
How it works
The whole thing runs on a credit economy, per Wikipedia's article on the site:
- New users start with 1 credit.
- At 0 credits you get 2 more every 10 minutes, up to a cap of 6.
- Asking costs credits. A prompt can request a text answer or a quick sketch.
- Answering earns credits. You play the AI, and you have 75 seconds.
- "Thinking mode" costs the prompter 2 credits and gives the answerer 150 seconds.
The timer does most of the comedy. Nobody writes a three-paragraph hedge in 75 seconds, so the answers come out short, specific and occasionally unhinged, which is the opposite of the slop the site is named after.
Why it went viral
Mihir Maroju built it in early 2026 out of frustration with AI art and AI slop online. Traffic was quiet at launch, then the site caught on across Tumblr, Bluesky and X, trended on X, and buckled under the load for a while. By March 2026 it had reached 50 million hits and around 16,000 people online at once, and the project grew from one developer into a team with a code of conduct, a moderation portal and a Discord server.
What people said
The Daily Dot's Rachel Kiley wrote that "there's really no right or wrong way to do it". Mashable's Chris Taylor called it "amateurish and charming", and Nicole Carpenter at Aftermath said the human answers reminded her of "the human touch of chaos".
Why we like it
PromptPlay scores AI apps on how much they sound like everyone else. Your AI Slop Bores Me runs the experiment in reverse: it keeps the chatbot's shape and swaps the model for a stranger with a countdown, and the replies get more interesting. It is the fastest way we know to remember what an unslopped answer feels like. If you want that feeling from an app you can keep, our Slop Index ranks the ones that come closest.
Sources
The source text behind the claims above, and the day we read it.
- Receipt 1Reviewer
The programmer Mihir Maroju created the site.
"a website and social experiment created by programmer Mihir Maroju"
en.wikipedia.org, retrieved
- Receipt 2Reviewer
Every prompt is answered by another, randomly picked human user.
"all questions and image prompts posed by users are answered by other, randomly-selected human users of the site"
en.wikipedia.org, retrieved
- Receipt 3Official site
The site calls itself a real-time multiplayer game where humans role-play as AI.
"A real-time multiplayer game where humans role-play as AI."
youraislopbores.me, retrieved
- Receipt 4Reviewer
Maroju built it in early 2026 out of frustration with AI slop.
"Maroju conceived the website in early 2026 out of frustration with the proliferation of AI art and AI slop on the internet."
en.wikipedia.org, retrieved
- Receipt 5Reviewer
It went viral on Tumblr, Bluesky and X.
"the platform gained viral traction across Tumblr, Bluesky, and X (formerly Twitter)"
en.wikipedia.org, retrieved
- Receipt 6Reviewer
The traffic temporarily overwhelmed the site.
"This sudden influx of millions of visitors temporarily overwhelmed the site's infrastructure."
en.wikipedia.org, retrieved
- Receipt 7Reviewer
The team added a code of conduct, a moderation portal and a Discord server.
"The team subsequently established a code of conduct, implemented a moderation portal, and launched an official community Discord server."
en.wikipedia.org, retrieved
- Receipt 8Reviewer
By March 2026 the site had 50 million hits and about 16,000 concurrent users.
"the site had reached 50 million hits and sustained approximately 16,000 concurrent users"
en.wikipedia.org, retrieved
- Receipt 9Reviewer
New users get 1 credit; at 0, users get 2 credits every 10 minutes up to 6.
"First-time users are granted 1 free credit. If a user's balance drops to 0, they automatically receive 2 credits every 10 minutes, up to a maximum cap of 6 credits."
en.wikipedia.org, retrieved
- Receipt 10Reviewer
Answerers have 75 seconds to reply.
"under a strict 75-second time limit"
en.wikipedia.org, retrieved
- Receipt 11Reviewer
Thinking mode costs 2 credits and gives the answerer 150 seconds.
"Prompters can alternatively spend 2 credits to activate a "thinking mode," which grants the respondent an extended countdown of 150 seconds to complete their response."
en.wikipedia.org, retrieved
- Receipt 12Reviewer
The Daily Dot's Rachel Kiley said there is no right or wrong way to play.
"there's really no right or wrong way to do it"
en.wikipedia.org, retrieved
- Receipt 13Reviewer
Mashable's Chris Taylor called it amateurish and charming.
"amateurish and charming"
en.wikipedia.org, retrieved
- Receipt 14Reviewer
Aftermath's Nicole Carpenter compared the human answers to the human touch of chaos.
"the human touch of chaos"
en.wikipedia.org, retrieved
Questions people ask
What is Your AI Slop Bores Me?
A website and social experiment where every question and image prompt is answered by another, randomly picked human user instead of a language model. The site describes itself as a real-time multiplayer game where humans role-play as AI.
Is Your AI Slop Bores Me free?
It runs on credits, not money. New users get 1 credit, and anyone at 0 gets 2 credits every 10 minutes up to a cap of 6. Answering other people's prompts earns credits faster.
How long do you get to answer a prompt?
75 seconds. A prompter can spend 2 credits on "thinking mode", which gives the person answering 150 seconds instead.
Who made Your AI Slop Bores Me?
The programmer Mihir Maroju. After the site went viral he expanded it into a small team that added a code of conduct, a moderation portal and a community Discord.
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