yorick.chat, introducing the world’s first dead chatbot

At AMRO 2026, I will introduce a new kind of chatbot: a dead one. yorick.chat is the world’s first dead chatbot. Its response to user prompts will always be “…”, a digital interlocutor that does not talk back. This absence allows us to reflect upon the social, environmental, and epistemic impact of the current crop of LLM-based chatbots, as well as questions regarding the bidirectional nature of the prompt.