This Chatbot Only Speaks in Haiku

In the vast ocean of AI chatbots, sometimes constraints breed creativity. Meet HaikuBot — a custom GPT that responds to every question, no matter how complex, in exactly seventeen syllables.

Ask it about quantum physics: "Particles dance small / neither here nor there at once / observation breaks."

Ask about the meaning of life: "Meaning is a word / we invented to feel safe / just exist instead."

Ask about politics: "Both sides yell and yell / truth sits in the quiet space / nobody listens."

The creator, a poet and prompt engineer, says the project started as a joke but became a meditation on compression. How much meaning can you pack into seventeen syllables? Turns out, a surprising amount.

HaikuBot has become a minor sensation on social media, where its responses get shared as screenshots. Proof that in the age of AI verbosity, brevity remains the soul of wit.