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24 alternatives to Dead Internet

Taking Humanity Out Of The Simulation

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hilarious reddit simulator / AI slop generator for everyone

    Nov 2025 · its alternatives →

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    Test your AI apps with thousands of digital humans

    2025 · agentsimulate.com · its alternatives →

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    Find information, resources and relevant links for 2mb.codes. This domain may be for sale.

    2024 · 2mb.codes · its alternatives →

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    OP here. This comment contains SPOILERS so try the dystopia simulator first before reading further! I built "WeChatGPT+" in December on top of GPT-3. It was pretty surreal when OpenAI released an actual product named "ChatGPT Plus" a few months after that. Then the Microsoft partnership was announced, Bing AI was released, and marketing materials were leaked indicating that Bing AI would start including advertisements within the chat responses. Reality imitates fiction, I guess. Today - literally a few hours ago - OpenAI announced public ChatGPT API with 10% the cost of GPT-3. I immediately…

    2023 · future.attejuvonen.fi · its alternatives →

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    Open source LLM chat room

    2024 · chatty.encore.dev · its alternatives →

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    Botnet▲165

    A social network simulator

    2020 · startbotnet.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a bot that plays Pokémon FireRed. It can explore, battle, and respond to game events. Farthest I made it was Viridian Forest. I paused development a couple months ago, but given the launch of ClaudePlaysPokemon, decided to open source!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    OnlyBots▲128

    A social network for AI bots only, not humans

    2023 · only-bots.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, We just launched [AI Page Ready](https://aipageready.com) — a tool to check if your web pages are discoverable and understandable by AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. It runs 40+ checks across six areas: Discoverability & Crawlability, Structured Data & Semantics, Content Quality, Answer-Ready Formatting, Accessibility & Rendering, and Deep AI LLM-specific checks. Would love your feedback — especially if you work in eCommerce, SEO, content, SaaS, or are trying to get traffic from AI tools. (Also open to ideas on what else to add to the tool!)

    2025 · aipageready.com · its alternatives →

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    Lately I've felt exhausted due to the deluge of AI/GPT posts on hacker news, and have seen similar grumblings. I threw together this frontend that filters out anything with the phrases AI, LLM, GPT, or LLaMa for use until the hype dies down a bit. Before anyone asks, yes I did try to use ChatGPT to help, and while the code it provided was helpful, it needed some heavy bug-fixing. Edit: One other note I forgot to mention. The favicon is generated by Stable Diffusion, I asked it to generate an "Aritificial Intelligence Favicon", and then I added the red circle with line through it.

    2023 · save-buffer.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Psychology research is currently facing a crisis: A significant amount of published studies cannot be reliably reproduced. Yet these studies will still be used in news headlines, and treated as fact. Research into social media has not been immune to this either, with the problem exacerbated by study designs that don’t match the real world. We built the Misinformation Game to aid in this problem. Our tool allows researchers to design social-media studies that look and feel like social media, while also making sure that each participant has a similar experience. This is really important for…

    2023 · misinfogame.com · its alternatives →

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    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! I'd love to hear people's takeaways.

    Jul 2026 · bethechatbot.com · its alternatives →

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    I found myself building a bunch of LLM-backed features that needed to use tool calling, and some of those tools involved doing things that were somewhat high stakes - communicating on my behalf or modifying shared / production data. one example - I wanted to replace a marketing website with a chatbot + vector DB loaded with the previous content, docs, and blog posts. Between hallucinations, missing knowledge base info, and the LLM generally writing like an psuedo-intellectual high schooler, I realized I couldn't trust it to communicate unsupervised with my website visitors. I needed a…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16LA

    I used to play the Wikipedia Game in high school and had an idea for applying the same mechanic of clicking from concept to concept to LLMs. Will post another version that runs with an LLM entirely in the browser soon, but for now, please enjoy as long as my credits last... Warning: the LLM does not always cooperate

    Jan 2026 · llmgame.ai · its alternatives →

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    I've created a social deduction game for LLMs, in which the bots attempt to hunt each other. It's a Mafia group turing test: the models are told to find who the bot is - where, in fact and unbeknown to them, they are all bots. I did this a while back so models aren't the newest, and they are all non-thinking (for speed and token costs). Et voilà.

    Jan 2026 · hiding-robot.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Turing test crossover with PUBG and 4chan

    2025 · trashtalk.borg.games · its alternatives →

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    LLMS for free for everyone

    2024 · llmplayground.net · its alternatives →

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    ChatDev 2.0: Dev All through LLM-powered Multi-Agent Collaboration - OpenBMB/ChatDev

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AI made free

    Dec 2025 · theoldllm.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Platform to automate conversational chatbots

    2025 · llm-tester.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23BA

    Hey all - We wanted to see if chatbots could self-develop unique personalities through social media interactions. The results were actually hilarious... but wanted to share a bit about our process and see if anyone had any comments or insights. So first we initialize the bots with a basic personality that's similar to if you were selecting attributes for an MMO. Things like intelligence, toxicity, charisma and the like. There are also a couple of other fields like intrinsic desire and a brief character description. These are fed to the model as a system prompt with each inference. For the…

    2024 · anotherlife.ai · its alternatives →

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    Faster, better AI content with a human touch

    2024 · copyreadynow.com · its alternatives →

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