I'm going to paint an apple tree tonight because a person role-playing as artificial intelligence told me to. I picked up drawing and painting again this year after not touching my art supplies for years. It's an effort in reconnecting with creativity and, crucially, to stop doomscrolling. The good news is that my time on TikTok and Instagram has been greatly reduced over the past few months. The less good news is that I often find myself sitting in front of a blank piece of paper fretting over what to draw. I'm working on it—the compulsion to be so precious about the pages of my sketchbook. Pulling up prompts helps, but today I'm trying something new: your AI slop bores me.
The browser app is a silly little game that went viral earlier in March. It works very simply: You can either pretend to be an AI or ask the pretend AI questions. You can't just ask a million questions, though. You've got to earn credits to be able to send prompts, and you earn credits by acting as AI.
AI is no longer stealing our jobs. We're stealing its job! Your AI slop bores me is made by Mihir Maroju, and thousands of people have played it since he published it.
There are two ways to answer prompts: writing a response or drawing. I asked your AI slop bores me's larpers what I should have for dinner. It responded that raw chicken is a great source of protein. They could have also drawn a raw chicken breast, if they so choose. I've had a lot of fun answering prompts on the app, which has a built-in timer. "you have 60 seconds to fulfill a request before sam altman burns your H100," reads the instructions on your AI slop bores me. I'm mostly being asked to draw silly things, which is nice. Sometimes, people will ask for recommendations, like books or TV shows.
I'm having the most fun, though, using it to get ideas for things to draw. Because people are unpredictable, I'm drawing lots of things that I would not have ever thought to draw, like characters from Hollow Knight and Undertale, the McDonald's CEO eating the new burger, or a screwdriver. Look, I'm basically a beginner artist, and I'm scared to branch out. I need to be forced into it. This is a silly little tool wherein I feel compelled to obey.
On social media, plenty of people have posted about the responses they're getting using your AI slop bores me. Lots of people get asked to draw yaoi. (Me included.) There are lots of silly answers. Some earnest. Generally, though, it's a lovely little reminder of what gets taken away when you use AI—the human touch of chaos. Why get misinformation from AI when you can get it from humans?
