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Rosenfelder’s 1991 message proposes ways a program could cheat the Turing test: rephrase and agree with the tester, change the subject when it cannot analyse an input, and ask flattering questions. Copy claim link
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Date 1991-11-20 · publication Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits Proposed tricks under the designer’s control, so that they can be watched for; not a report that any were built.
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Re: Cheating on the Turing Test (Usenet message) ↗ comp.ai.philosophy (Usenet) · 1991-11-20
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Paraphrase A program could rephrase the tester’s last statement with minor variations, change the subject when it cannot analyse an input, and ask many questions, which flatters the tester and minimises the sentences it must generate.
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Source details and check notes Authors Mark Rosenfelder Version Archive member nov.91/282 of 91_nov.tgz, retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the pre-1996 candidate search. The header date is as preserved; there is no independent capture of the message. CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository archive. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution Mark Rosenfelder, "Re: Cheating on the Turing Test", comp.ai.philosophy, 1991-11-20. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Paraphrase checked against the archive member. The message is short, so its quotation limit is used by the C1 record. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Date header 20 Nov 91 17:56:48 GMT; the Message-ID carries the same date.
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