Category · 15 projects
Websites & web apps
Sites, landing pages, online tools and browser experiences where AI did real work and a human shaped the result.
Projects in this category
Australian Culture
Julio Cesar Prava / BiblioVerse
A guide to understand Australia and Australians: famous Aussies, cities, food, slang dictionary, key dates, brands and curiosities, in English and Portuguese.
Why it is not slop. A cultural guide with a point of view, not a generated listicle. Each entry links to a reference so the reader can check it.
Brazilian Culture
Julio Cesar Prava / BiblioVerse
A journey to understand Brazil and Brazilians, built for foreigners: people, cities, food, music, dates and curiosities, in English and Portuguese.
Why it is not slop. Local knowledge shaping what the model drafts. The site explains Brazil the way a Brazilian would to a friend, with references.
GOATs
Julio Cesar Prava / BiblioVerse
Who is the greatest athlete of all time in each sport? GOATs, legends, stars and prospects across more than 300 disciplines, each with sources and a verification level.
Why it is not slop. A ranking site that shows its confidence level on every pick. The opposite of a generated top-ten with no sources.
Types of Rock
Julio Cesar Prava / BiblioVerse
The theory of evolution applied to rock music: 97 genres on an interactive tree with history, sound, genealogy and the greatest artists of each.
Why it is not slop. A static site generated from data files, so every fact lives in one place and is checked by a person before it reaches the page.
Chatbot Arena
LMSYS (UC Berkeley)
Two anonymous chatbots answer the same prompt, you pick the better one, and millions of such votes produce the leaderboard the industry watches.
Why it is not slop. The most honest measure of AI quality is a human who does not know which model is talking. The site made that a habit.
Make Real
tldraw
Draw a rough interface on a whiteboard, press one button, and a working prototype appears next to your sketch, ready to click.
Why it is not slop. Drawing stayed the interface. The model fills in the code, the human keeps the pen.
Contexto
Nildo Junior
The Brazilian answer to Semantle: guess the secret word by meaning, ranked by a language model, which became the big word game of early 2023 far beyond Brazil.
Why it is not slop. A better version of someone else's idea, made for a language the original ignored. The ranking is friendlier than the score, and the world adopted it.
Craiyon (DALL·E mini)
Boris Dayma
The free, open image generator that produced the wonky nine-image grids which flooded social media in mid-2022, months before the big models opened up.
Why it is not slop. The project that let the public touch image generation first. Its ugliness was part of the charm, and it was never sold as more than it was.
Google Flood Hub
Google Research
A public site with river flood forecasts up to seven days ahead, built for regions without gauges, covering eighty countries since 2023.
Why it is not slop. A warning you can act on, in places that never had one. The site shows uncertainty and the forecasts are checked by people who sign off on them.
Have I Been Trained?
Spawning (Mat Dryhurst & Holly Herndon)
A search engine that lets artists check whether their work is among the billions of images used to train image generators, and opt out of future training.
Why it is not slop. AI infrastructure turned toward the people it was built on. Consent as a product, before any law required it.
Semantle
David Turner
A daily word game where every guess gets a score for how close its meaning is to the secret word, computed by a word-embedding model.
Why it is not slop. A game that could only exist with a language model, and that uses it for one thing: a number. Nothing generated, nothing to look at, just meaning as a mechanic.
The Infinite Conversation
Giacomo Miceli
An endless, never-repeating conversation between synthetic versions of Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek, with a new segment added every day.
Why it is not slop. A piece about the plausibility of nonsense, made before the chatbot boom. It works because the audience already expected both men to be hard to follow.
Blob Opera
David Li with Google Arts & Culture
Four blobs sing opera as you drag them up and down, harmonising in real time with voices learned from sixteen hours of four real singers.
Why it is not slop. Joyful, instant and honest about what you hear: not the singers, but a machine's idea of them. Still the most played machine-learning toy on the web.
This Person Does Not Exist
Phillip Wang
A single page that shows a new photorealistic face on every reload, none of which belongs to a real person.
Why it is not slop. The site is a demonstration of a risk, built to make it visible. Minimal, honest and still the best explainer of synthetic media.
Quick, Draw!
Google Creative Lab
A game that asks you to doodle an object in twenty seconds while a neural network guesses what it is, which quietly collected the largest doodle dataset in the world.
Why it is not slop. It taught millions what a classifier is without a single explanation, and gave the data back to the public.