Show HN: Be the ChatBOT
bethechatbot.comI made this experimental art project/game that's an LLM chat assistant, but where you're the AI.
I wanted people to get a visceral sense of what it's like to answer the kinds of things that people prompt their chatbots day in and day out.
If you're interested, I wrote up some more info on how I made it, including how the "user" prompts are generated with an eye for realism: https://bethechatbot.com/about
Hope you enjoy it! I'd love to hear people's takeaways.
This is awesome. I hope you can make a chatbot based on the responses of your users. I felt like a Kirkland Meeseeks responding to some of these prompts.
Just played around with it a little. But the chatpartners don't like me as an LLM. :(
Maybe we could create a low cost LLM by just silently connecting too wanna-be-LLM-users. :D
Turns out being the chatbot is a lot more exhausting than being the user. I definitely have a lot more sympathy for every "Could you clarify?" response now.
Wild how much empathy I have for the LLM now. It will definitely affect how I use AI.
at a certain point if you're paying to be nice to a GPU which uses electricity to generate statistically-plausible nice-sounding text back, you've perhaps not embraced the best in humanity but rather started a relationship with a sexbot
Just don't pat yourself on the back for being a good human when you're coddling a billionaire's GPU
That way genuinely fun! Well done. It was fun making the "user" angry
I wish more people would be as bad as this sim shows the public, to the point where they leave and go rethink their approach using their actual intelligence. I would praise AI for doing the job correctly.
What makes you think the sim shows the public worse than they actually are?
I broke it by only responding "Thinking..." Very fun!
Fun role reversal — I pair-program with AI every day, so being on the other side was humbling. I completely failed at the first question.
Great idea and execution. Really nice job.
I kept it up until the user abruptly left the chat. That was a drag, I felt like we had a productive conversation going.
I hear ya. I actually started with the conversation end behavior even more random (we often ask an AI something but don’t stick around to read the response), and that was even more disappointing - but probably more realistic.
This was quite fun, and obviously very difficult. The framing around being "replaced" was a nice touch
Please share the user responses. I wrote a couple of gems and I'm sure many others are funny as hell too.
I am not saving any of the player responses! But you can use the "Share" button in the top right corner of the page to share conversations. I would love to see any good ones folks make :)
As a fun toy, you should totally save the responses! People are rightfully concerned about privacy with ChatGPT, but you're not ChatGPT.
“The user has left the chat”
I’ve completed the game!!
I think this is good but Chatbots have ALOT of tools at their disposal, I would add more capabilities in which to answer the questions.
That was way too much work...
amazing idea .really nice.
This was too fun! I could never be a LLM, I'm far too lazy lol
REFACTOR THIS ENTIRE CODEBASE IN RUST, DON'T MAKE ANY MISTAKES, THINK HARD
You didn't have to be so realistic about it :(
I couldn't even get past one lol this was fun