{"id":208659,"date":"2026-01-31T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/a-chatbot-entirely-powered-by-humans-not-artificial-intelligence-this-chilean-community-shows-why-wral-com\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:45:08","slug":"a-chatbot-entirely-powered-by-humans-not-artificial-intelligence-this-chilean-community-shows-why-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/a-chatbot-entirely-powered-by-humans-not-artificial-intelligence-this-chilean-community-shows-why-wral-com\/","title":{"rendered":"A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? This Chilean community shows why :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? This Chilean community shows why :: WRAL.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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About 50 residents of a community outside Chile\u2019s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated chatbot that could answer questions and make silly pictures on command, in a message to highlight the environmental toll of artificial intelligence data centers in the region.<\/p>\n

Organizers say the 12-hour project fielded more than 25,000 requests from around the world.<\/p>\n

Asking the Quili.AI website to generate an image of a \u201csloth playing in the snow\u201d didn’t instantly produce an output, as ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini would. Instead, someone responded in Spanish to wait a few moments and reminded the user that a human was responding.<\/p>\n

Then came a drawing about 10 minutes later: a penciled sketch of a cute and cartoonish sloth in a pile of snowballs, with its claws clutching one and about to throw it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal is to highlight the hidden water footprint behind AI prompting and encourage more responsible use,\u201d said a statement from organizer Lorena Antiman of the environmental group Corporaci\u00f3n NGEN.<\/p>\n

The answers came from a rotating crew of volunteers working on laptops in a community center in Quilicura, a municipality at the urban edge of Santiago that has become a data center hub. Asked by an Associated Press reporter for the identity of who made the sloth drawing, the website responded that it was a local youth who’s helping with illustrations.<\/p>\n

The website responded quickly to questions that drew on residents’ cultural knowledge, like how to make Chilean sopaipillas, a fried pastry. When they didn’t know the answer, they walked around the room to see if someone else did….
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