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An artist poses as a chatbot and fields queries manually

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The newsletter reports a San Francisco artist answering chatbot queries personally under an average-individual interpretation of AI until demand reached 5,000 queries per hour.

Reported metric: 5,000 an hour

Reporting date: 2026-10-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to October 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Source linked by the October 13 issue (www.sfgate.com)

Original summary of Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s October 13, 2026 reporting. Linked-source claims have not been independently verified.

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Welcome to October 13, 2026

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Welcome to October 13, 2026

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An artist poses as a chatbot and fields queries manually
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-10-13
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-10-13-human-chatbot
Claim: The newsletter reports a San Francisco artist answering chatbot queries personally under an average-individual interpretation of AI until demand reached 5,000 queries per hour.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to October 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-october-13-2026
- Source linked by the October 13 issue — https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/prank-san-francisco-billboard-22373923.php
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