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Tatiana Sataua

Meet ChatTJB, the 'AI' chatbot with no AI, no algorithm and no LLM. It's just one guy and the 10,000 people who volunteered to type back

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For years, workers have been warned that AI was coming for their jobs. Now, 32-year-old Tucker Bryant decided to return the favor.

The former Google employee built ChatTJB, a chatbot that looks a lot like the AI assistants Silicon Valley has spent trillions of dollars developing. It looks just like a normal chat box and follows the same process: users type a question and wait for an answer. The catch? There’s no large language model on the other side—just Bryant, or increasingly, one of the more than 10,000 people who’ve applied to help him answer all those questions.

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