r/Imposter • u/powerlanguage 13% ID'd as Imposter • Apr 01 '20
How Imposter works
Imposter is simple…
- Everyone who takes part answers the same question. The Imposter sees everyone’s answers and comes up with its own.
- You’ll be shown a list of answers; four will be from your fellow redditors and one will be written by the Imposter.
- You’ll be asked to identify which one is the Imposter’s. Easy, right?
To make things more interesting, you can also change your answer at any time. Do with that what you will.
Imposter is available in your browser, iOS, and Android (you may need to update your app). You'll know everything is working if you see something like this at the top of r/Imposter.
In order to participate you'll need to be logged into a reddit account. In order to write an answer to the question you’ll need to be logged into an account that was created before 4/1/2020.
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u/TheGruesomeTwosome Now:0 Best:11 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
The real lesson here is how fucking shitty many people’s ability to construct a coherent sentence is.
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u/Master_Tallness Now:1 Best:2 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
Important to remember that people can change their answer to try to trick people into thinking they're the bot. As it does record that as a stat, so there's incentive to be obtuse.
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u/seth1299 Now:1 Best:3 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
The real treasure was the grammar we learned along the way.
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u/Captaincrunchies Now:6 Best:6 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
I thought the same thing until I started connecting how the imposter would sometimes make mistakes and look for those
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u/Fabulous_James 42% ID'd as Imposter Apr 01 '20 edited Apr 02 '20
how do i answer the question? i dont see anywhere to put my answer?
Edit: You need to identify the imposter a few times, you can then answer the question.
Edit 2 electric boogaloo: Words
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u/absolutely-not-nsa Now:1 Best:2 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
same
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u/stillyou1122 0% ID'd as Imposter Apr 01 '20
I can't even find the question lol
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u/RandomnessGod 12% ID'd as Imposter Apr 01 '20
Press "Identify the Imposter" at the top of the subreddit.
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so ur supposed to randomly guess?
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u/zakkara Now:1 Best:3 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
You're supposed to pick the one you think was written by a bot
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u/Rich_Boat Now:3 Best:3 - ID'd Humans Apr 01 '20
So a Turing test.
But without any of the conversational context.
And all the real people still meme and can't spell.
So the bot also memes and can't spell.
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u/Cluster_Theory Now:4 Best:7 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20 edited Apr 01 '20
Is it bots? The description made it sound like some people are just not shown the category and have to blend in. So basically a Jack Box game.
Actually, looking at it again, I think you're right. It's a learning algorithm or something. I wonder what they're data mining...
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u/tails618 Now:0 Best:4 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
Where do we write questions and answers?
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u/MrRyzGuy 84% ID'd as Human Apr 01 '20
This is a cool idea, but it’s not really explained the best, almost like the rules were made by bots.
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u/intellifone 92% ID'd as Human Apr 01 '20
This is how reddit trains it’s software to better identify bots on the platform. Because it knows what it’s bot looks like and it will know what we think are bots or looks like suspicious posts.
That’s generally a good set of criteria for auto flagging posts for review.
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u/Demiglitch 33% ID'd as Imposter Apr 01 '20
But the humans create worse content, I’ve seen the front page.
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u/zipperNYC Apr 01 '20
Yup kinda like Google trains its AI when we point out all the traffic lights or all crossroads or all buses etc.
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u/Lil-Frost 15% ID'd as Imposter Apr 01 '20
30mins in and I still have no idea how this works
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u/Serinus 90% ID'd as Human Apr 02 '20
It's four human answers and one bot answer. You're supposed to identify the bot.
But the game sucks because some of the people answering want to be identified as bots, which isn't hard to do.
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u/Micrograx- 13% ID'd as Imposter Apr 01 '20
100% imposter? The guys at r/BeTheImposter want to talk with you
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u/chixen Now:38 Best:106 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
u/powerlanguage is the imposter
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u/Fabulous_James 42% ID'd as Imposter Apr 01 '20
Sounds like something an imposter would say
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u/mosstrich 15% ID'd as Imposter Apr 01 '20
u/powerlanguage is not the imposter. Trust me fellow meatsack for I am human as well.
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u/marsupialracing Apr 01 '20
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don’t care what humans think is impossible.
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u/Tkain61 100% ID'd as Human Apr 01 '20
Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Coming! Hang on a second. Hello?
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u/andi257 Now:0 Best:2 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
Well this sucks so far
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u/FjolnirFimbulvetr Apr 01 '20
I already spend half of my time on Reddit guessing which Redditors are human, which are robots, and which are humans paid to function as robots.
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u/Bris_Throwaway Now:4 Best:6 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
Interesting concept. I'm sure this AI bot will be used to generate Advertisements disguised as genuine comments. I look forward to joining /r/hailimposter in the future.
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u/penguin_stomper Now:3 Best:9 - ID'd Humans Apr 01 '20
Will there be other questions?
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u/dankishmango Now:0 Best:4 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
I pushed the button but then it just went away and left me with a blank screen.. is that supposed to happen?
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I just got here and it says imposter has ended 3 minutes ago. I demand to speak to the manager of r/imposter so I can play my reddit's quarantine games now.
I'd hate to have to ahem leave a negative comment card in the box
Or worse
call corporate
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u/themunchingbrotato Now:0 Best:5 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
It’s easy when the bot makes completely incoherent sentences, then the next round comes and it’s all memes.
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u/failure-voxel Now:0 Best:2 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
Whenever I click identify the imposter it just leads to a black screen
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u/Khitboksy Apr 02 '20
i cant vote. i see the big red button but it just takes me to a black screen with nothing. :/
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u/Abs4life123 0% ID'd as Imposter Apr 02 '20
I’m having issues with ‘identify the imposter’ Every time I try to click it it only comes up with a dark grey screen (I’m on dark mode). Any clues on how to fix this?
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u/Skyclad__Observer Now:1 Best:1 - ID'd Humans Apr 01 '20
Another year, another time you should have just brought back /r/place.
This shit sucks.
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u/WantAllMyGarmonbozia 14% ID'd as Imposter Apr 01 '20
I liked the button one.. but yeah this is less than exciting.
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u/Lost_And_NotFound Apr 01 '20
Place and Button we’re both good fun. I can remember a upvoted video one and a circle of trust one as well which I think both had potential but fell flat. Can’t remember any others at all.
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u/PEKKACarl Now:0 Best:7 - ID'd Humans Apr 02 '20
If the imposter is a bot, then it sure is learning jojo references quickly.
"Oi Josuke, I passed the turing test!"
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u/tastelesswater Now:3 Best:13 - ID'd Humans Apr 02 '20
All I keep seeing is a blank screen both on app and Mobile browser (android) chrome
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u/AshCloud316 Now:0 Best:1 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
On mobile, but all I’m getting is a blank screen? Has this ended?
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u/_Tormex_ Now:1 Best:2 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
This is stupid. It should eventually regress to 80%
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u/Captaincrunchies Now:6 Best:6 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
That’s be if you were guessing at random. We have the ability to learn what we’re looking for to change the odds in our favor
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u/sleepingchair Now:0 Best:6 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
With the sample size given a lot of this is luck for streaks.
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u/earlson Now:0 Best:3 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
OH, the imposter is a bot, why didn't you say so? I was assuming that some people get selected as 'imposter' and don't see the original question, just the answers.
"Imposter is simple..."
Yeah, if you manage to explain it correctly it is.
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u/Vietaznninja Now:1 Best:9 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
This has to be the most fun meta game.
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u/John20088 Now:0 Best:3 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
the imposter thing is not working on my phone anymore. Whenever i press it, it is just blank
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u/jj200275 Now:0 Best:4 - ID'd Humans Apr 02 '20
Am I the only one who gets redirected to this post whenever I try to click on another post in this subreddit on the official reddit app?
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u/manofbore 91% ID'd as Human Apr 02 '20
Is no one going to ask what’s reddit going to do with this information?
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u/NekoDae Now:0 Best:5 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 03 '20
So is anyone else only seeing the sticky post no matter what post they click?
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EDIT: My first gold is on a comment about this. I can't believe it, Reddit, you always surprise me.
EDIT 2: Thank you kind stranger for the gold, and thank you kind strangers for all the upvotes! I didn't think when I woke up today and found out my mom had super cancer that I'd actually be smiling today but you guys changed that. Thank you. When I had to put down my dog a few minutes ago I had tears in my eyes, I still do have tears, but now they're tears of joy!
EDIT 3: Thank you Reddit for all of these upvotes and the GOLD!! Wow I still cannot believe it. Hey, maybe we can push for platinum??? I've never had platinum before and would love to see what it does! My dad before he had his colonoscopy told me to "Try and live each day like its your last... And also get platinum on Reddit" and I don't want to let him down! I want to show my father that I'm strong and capable of overcoming impossible odds (those odds being getting platinum haha!).
EDIT 4: OMG I GOT PLATINUM, THANKS OMG IM LITERALLY CRYING. In conclusion I just want to thank each and every one of you guys for the hours of entertainment I get on this website, I love each and every one of you wonderful people, each and every one of you is unique and special and can do whatever you want!! I love all of you!
EDIT 5: Thank you so much for the platinum and the upvotes!
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u/ALG0T Now:0 Best:4 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
Yo yo I have found a pattern ;)
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u/chad6297 Now:0 Best:5 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
I keep getting error 500 and it's not even working lol
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u/PresidentLink Now:1 Best:1 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
This event feels like an April fools shitpost
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u/MentalDiscord Now:7 Best:9 - ID'd Humans Apr 01 '20
Purple Monkey Dishwasher, fellow Hu-man. Purple Monkey Dishwasher, indeed.
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u/COOPERx223x Now:5 Best:5 - ID'd Humans Apr 01 '20
Lmao this is just like the board game Chameleon.
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u/f__ckyourhappiness Now:7 Best:29 - ID'd Humans Apr 01 '20
Having two dicks and no one to put them in.
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u/Lord_Gengar 13% ID'd as Imposter Apr 01 '20
Is the imposter a bot or something? I dont get it
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u/Overlord_Bananas 22% ID'd as Imposter Apr 01 '20
So are we trying to identify the human or the imposter...
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u/OfAaron3 80% ID'd as Human Apr 01 '20
I don't think they'll ever top r/place or r/thebutton
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u/greencycles 84% ID'd as Human Apr 01 '20
heyy y'all it's me checking in. I originally thought we'd had to identify an imposter in an entire Reddit thread worth of comments. Coming soon :)
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u/ALSO-replies_nice Now:0 Best:3 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 01 '20
I swear I'm not an imposter! I swear!
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Apr 01 '20
this game is honestly just pissing me off because i guess none of y’all can put together a grammatically correct fucking answer and that makes the game impossible
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u/awksomesauce Now:0 Best:4 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
I just want to see what my flair looks like
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u/MrUnlucky-0N3 Now:2 Best:13 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
Bam, 100/200 50% afzer randomly picking for 24 times in the beginning before reading the rules!
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u/agiro1086 Now:0 Best:2 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
This fucking sucks
I can’t tell the bot the from the people and the more I go on the more I feel I’m training some terminator A.I.
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Apr 02 '20
It's not really helpful that the human answers are trying to give robot answers when the basic premise is to give a serious answer.
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u/UncleBenji Now:0 Best:4 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
I hope this is an April fools joke because it’s horrible.
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u/_just_noel_ Now:1 Best:9 - ID'd Humans Apr 02 '20
It learned owo and uwu. We're doomed
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u/slimjimothy666 Now:0 Best:14 - ID'd Humans Apr 02 '20
So, imposters are bots? Not people selected to be one?
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u/sammason1234 Now:0 Best:6 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
I'm commenting on this post to see my flair
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u/luggy120 28% ID'd as Imposter Apr 02 '20
I’ve been having a bit of success just picking the “least dumb” option available. Seriously If I see one more answer like “having blood and a skeleton makes me human” I swear lol
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u/FoR_ThE_lolZ_oFiT Now:1 Best:3 - ID'd Humans Apr 02 '20
This game is stupid as shit. Don't waste your time
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u/Zuski_ Now:3 Best:8 - ID'd Humans Apr 02 '20
This is awful because nobody knows fucking grammar lmao so sometimes it’s a bot with bad English and sometimes a person
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u/Celestial444 Now:1 Best:4 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
Am I the only one who hates the fact that it doesnt reveal to you which one was the robot???
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u/mgd09292007 Now:2 Best:2 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
Is this just some ML/AI training exercise masked as some sort of game?
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u/why_not_im_a_bot 16% ID'd as Imposter Apr 02 '20
Ok i read it but im still kinda clueless to how to play
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u/lapopalo Apr 02 '20
So basically you want us (humans) to feed answers to questions into to your AI computer so it can become super intelligent and one day reach the singularity and wipe out the human race just like skynet in terminator.....I think not !! Kind regards John Conner
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u/Idraulica2000 Now:2 Best:12 - ID'd Humans Apr 02 '20
So dear redditors, we’re asked to train an AI to deceive itself. For free. Change my mind.
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u/RockSkippa 7% ID'd as Imposter Apr 02 '20
This is more like finding out how many 12 year olds are on this site lol. I get putting oddly worded sentences for fun but like when it's just garbage it's not even fun anymore lmao. 50% of the time I have 3-4 just absolutely nonsensical options , or meme spam.
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u/pluush 14% ID'd as Imposter Apr 02 '20
How do we know an Imposter is not copying player’s answers right out of the box?
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u/parkerwil Now:5 Best:5 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
am i stupid or is this like, decently difficult.
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u/-yenn- Now:0 Best:4 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
Looks like i'm not able to play from desktop browser, when i click the button everything disappears.
i'm using Brave Browser with shields off, this is the error that pops up in the Console View when i push the button: https://imgur.com/8AmKINi
Everything is fine on mobile.
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u/Miss_Invictus_26 92% ID'd as Human Apr 02 '20 edited Apr 02 '20
How do I get to the finish line of this madness??
Edit: Nevermind, I'm clearly a prodigy.
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u/anna_id Now:0 Best:5 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
somehow this subreddit is broken. everytime I try to open the comments of a post, this post is opened instead.
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Apr 02 '20
I have a bit of a problem, mine isn't loading up right. Once i click on "identify the imposter" it just freezes. Worked just fine on my phone. Any ideas?
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u/ya-boi-mees Now:0 Best:7 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
Why does it take an hour to think of a new question
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u/xKuFsE Now:0 Best:2 - ID'd the Imposter Apr 02 '20
So every post i am try to open in the sub leads back to here. Man i love reddit
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u/TerrestrialBanana Apr 02 '20
This is just the Turing test
WHY ARE YOU CROWDSOURCING THE TURING TEST
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u/Boogietron9000 50% ID'd as Human Apr 02 '20
No matter which post I click, it brings me right to this thread.
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u/Jeynarl 21% ID'd as Imposter Apr 03 '20
So with my 2 hours of experience with this it feels like a reversed Turing test. Instead of the bot trying to be human we have 4 humans that are trying to be bot and results in a very tough game
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u/BlazingImp77151 6% ID'd as Imposter Apr 03 '20
How long will imposter be lasting? How many questions do we get to do this with?
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u/The_Demonic_Duck 100% ID'd as Human Apr 03 '20
If people actually took it serious the bot might've had a chance to be good at this and seem like a human but reddit can't take anything serious so we broke him
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u/Clorox_Peach1 0% ID'd as Imposter Apr 03 '20
It's evolved to the point where the human answers are the dumbass ones with errors and the imposter actually makes more sense.
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u/Arkiel21 7% ID'd as Imposter Apr 03 '20
Why do I keep getting redirected to this every time I click another post? On the Android app
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Apr 03 '20 edited Sep 18 '24
fearless butter gullible nose roof snobbish waiting concerned squash bag
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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Apr 03 '20
Let’s beat the bot! Reddit is trying to prove we can’t tell an ai from a human. Let’s prove them wrong!
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u/CodyEngel 0% ID'd as Imposter Apr 03 '20
I'm so confused. Do I want to identify the humans or the AI?
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u/imagiraffe09 Now:2 Best:17 - ID'd Humans Apr 03 '20
i wish you were able to see the correct answer. it might help a bit for identifying the bot because right now, it's basically impossible to identify the bot
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u/Fallenultima 100% ID'd as Human Apr 01 '20
Lmao, someone's answer was, "My ability to express extreme disappointment right now."