He Trolls AI Labs for a Living. Now They All Want to Work With Him

OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI have all asked creator Matt Husk to collaborate following the viral success of his videos trolling AI models.

During the WIRED World Fair on Wednesday, Husk told the crowd “all the big AI companies” have inquired about working with him, including Elon Musk’s xAI, which Husk claimed offered a Tesla for a week if he made videos exclusively for the firm.

The comedian has gained some 2 million followers combined across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, as well as a deal with the talent agency Unicorn, through videoing himself making deadpan requests to ChatGPT’s voice model—asking it to count to 100, or to beatbox, for example. His viral videos have exposed the weaknesses of OpenAI’s LLM, which comically botches the tasks and swings between sycophancy and gaslighting Husk, and earned him the title of “Sam Altman’s worst nightmare.”

In April, Altman, nodding and smiling, admitted on tech podcast Mostly Human that the model’s inability to set an accurate timer was a “known issue” and would be for another year, after being shown a Husk video in which he asked ChatGPT to time him running a mile and found that it measured a span of a few seconds as lasting “around 10 minutes.” When Husk says “I swear I was faster than that,” it replies with a sympathetic tone: “It can feel faster in the moment.”

During his interview at WIRED World Fair with Shell Game podcast host Evan Ratliff, Husk said OpenAI offered him early access to a patch for the timer issue if he shared his account. He declined. The company had previously emailed Husk asking to collaborate on a video. “They offered me the smallest amount,” he said. “I was just like, ‘No.’” The firm then offered to send him gifts and asked for his home address; Again, Husk declined.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI (which was recently rolled into SpaceX to create SpaceXAI and then SpaceXSI after President Trump renamed artificial intelligence “super intelligence”) did not respond to requests for comment.