Comment by vasco

7 hours ago

> We never talk about it now because we obviously blew past it years ago.

My Turing test has been the same since about when I learned it existed. I told myself I'd always use the same one.

What I do is after saying Hi, I will repeat the same sentence forever.

A human still reacts very differently than any machine to this test. Current AIs could be adversarially prompted to bypass this maybe, but so far it's still obvious its a machine replying.

What would you expect a human to reply?

And after you have answered that question. Try Claude Sonnet 4.5.

What is Claude Sonnet 4.5's reply?

  • I decided to put this to the test.

    What I would expect a human to reply:

    "Um... OK?"

    What Claude Sonnet 4.5 replied:

    "Hi there! I understand you're planning to repeat the same sentence. I'm here whenever you'd like to have a conversation about something else or if you change your mind. Feel free to share whatever's on your mind!"

    I don't think I've ever imagined a human saying "I understand you're planning to repeat the same sentence", if you thought this was some kind of killer rebuke, I don't think it worked out the way you imagined- do you actually think that's a human-sounding response? To me it's got that same telltale sycophancy of a robot butler that I've come to expect from these consumer grade LLMs.

    • That's mostly because of the system prompt asking Claude to be a helpful assistant.

      If you try with a human who works in a call center with that system prompt as instructions on how to answer calls, you will likely get a similar response.

      But honestly, believe in whatever you wanna believe. I'm so sick of arguing with people online. Not gonna waste my time here anymore.

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