The Hottest New AI Chatbot Is Just a Guy Answering Your Questions
Wired AI · rss · 2026-08-07
WIRED reports on ChatTJB, a viral project that appears to be an AI chatbot but is actually manned live by Tucker Bryant, an artist and former Google employee.
By pretending to be an AI, Bryant aims to provoke reflection on the "strange moment" we currently inhabit amid the tech hype, challenging our expectations of human-computer interaction.
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