This article first appeared in Digital Edge, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on April 13, 2026 - April 19, 2026

I spent my entire Sunday stealing an artificial intelligence’s job instead of letting AI steal my job.

While scrolling through social media, I came across people experimenting with a new AI-style website. What struck me, however, was that there was no AI involved at all — both the questions and answers were being typed out by human hands.

Users need to “larp (live action roleplay) as an AI” by answering another person’s prompt within 60 seconds, and a credit to ask one’s own question is granted upon completion.

Seeing the current usage of AI, it’s not difficult for me to wonder why such a site was created. The reception of AI-generated output has been largely divisive, and the term “AI slop” was coined to define content generated by AI as it is perceived to lack effort, quality or meaning.

Coming across AI content is inescapable; we’re forced to see it in Google search results, in ads, in customer service hotlines and even captions in social media posts. Corporations are also constantly being told to implement AI technology to find ways to reduce costs or to maximise their efficiencies or risk falling behind.

While these usages of AI can certainly speed up processes for both businesses and the end user, this push for optimisation can sometimes feel a little overbearing as large language models start replacing humans in our own society.

On the site, the prompts are silly, the drawings are amateurish, and some of the answers leave you dumbfounded, but someone out there in the world took time out of their day to create and fulfil the request of a stranger, inconsequential as it may be.

There’s a chance the website might be desolate by the end of the week, considering how quickly the internet moves on, but it does feel good to turn the tables on AI, stepping away from the machines, and remembering how exciting we can be as humans.

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