AI

I Accidentally Passed the Reverse Turing Test

Does this spell a new chapter in human history?

Photo by Maximalfocus on Unsplash

The Reverse Turing Test is set up so that AI has to detect who in the group is human*. Obviously you’d be the human. If you fail the test, you’re outed as human, and the AI wins. If you pass the test, you’re concealed as an AI and you win. Except I passed accidentally, and count it as a loss.

Submission

A few days ago I submitted to a publication on Medium, a rather abstract and artistic poem entitled “A Yogi’s Rainbow”†. I like to communicate with editors before my submissions are published because often they have some great advice and I can learn something. So I let the publication know in a private note. The response was astonishing:

“This poem appears to be 100% AI-generated. Please create a poem in your own words…”

No… fucking… way.

screenshot by the author, edited using AI image software (ironically enough) to ‘erase’ identifiables

Yes fucking way.

I’ve of course used ChatGPT to help workshop ideas before, and it’s most frequently used as a reverse dictionary to help with lethologica. I define the word I can’t remember (or don’t…