Chinese professor says AI replies are 'written by people', internet revives the Chinese Room joke
SydSteyerhart · x · 2026-09-20
A claim by a Chinese professor that AI replies are "written by people" rather than independently generated by machines went viral via Kalshi, echoing the classic Chinese Room thought experiment. X users riffed on it, joking that behind every chatbot there's someone in India furiously typing PhD-level responses to your nuanced prompts.
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