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New AI Chatbot Turns Out to Be One Overworked Guy Answering All the Messages by Hand

FuturismPublished Aug 4, 2026

Tucker Bryant, a former Google employee, created ChatTJB, a chatbot marketed as AI-powered but actually operated manually by him responding to messages. The project aims to highlight users' overreliance on AI by providing slower, human-generated replies to encourage critical thinking.

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