Be the ChatBOT

Name: Be the ChatBOT
Availability: InStock
Author: keito

by keito·Jul 16, 2026·6 points·3 comments

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AI Analysis

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Role-reversal game makes you feel the grind of being a chatbot.

Strengths

•Flips the script to generate empathy for AI labor through direct experience.
•Prompts are procedurally generated to mimic the chaotic reality of user inputs.
•Minimalist terminal aesthetic fits the 'machine' persona perfectly.

Weaknesses

•Novelty wears off quickly once the pattern of prompts becomes repetitive.
•Lacks long-term engagement mechanics or scoring beyond the initial concept.

Post Description

I 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!