Imposter

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/ft3e3q/imposter/

created by powerlanguage on 01/04/2020 at 16:48 UTC

26892 upvotes, 100 top-level comments (showing 25)

If you’ve participated in Reddit’s April Fools’ Day tradition before, you'll know that this is the point where we normally share a confusing/cryptic message before pointing you toward some weird experience that we’ve created for your enjoyment.

While we still plan to do that, we think it’s important to acknowledge that this year, things feel quite a bit different. The world is experiencing a moment of incredible uncertainty and stress; and throughout this time, it’s become even more clear how valuable Reddit is to millions of people looking for community, a place to seek and share information, provide support to one another, or simply to escape the reality of our collective ‘new normal.’

Over the past 5 years at Reddit, April Fools’ Day has emerged as a time for us to create and discover new things with our community (that’s all of you). It's also a chance for us to celebrate you. Reddit only succeeds because millions of humans come together each day to make this collective system work. We create a project each April Fools’ Day to say thank you, and think it’s important to continue that tradition this year too. We hope this year’s experience will provide some insight and moments of delight during this strange and difficult time.

With that said, as promised:

*What makes you human?*

*Can you recognize it in others?*

*Are you sure?*

Visit r/Imposter in your browser, iOS[1], and Android[2].

1: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reddit/id1064216828

2: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reddit.frontpage

Have fun and be safe,

The Reddit Admins.

Comments

Comment by [deleted] at 01/04/2020 at 20:01 UTC

2064 upvotes, 7 direct replies

this year for April fools: train a bot spotting AI on a website absolutely overrun with bots.

this is a bit on the nose isn't it . many users are fooled by bots on a daily basis

Comment by throwawayhaircut23 at 01/04/2020 at 16:53 UTC

2918 upvotes, 21 direct replies

The only April fools I remember are "periwinkle v orangered" and r/place.. both glorious shitshows. Hope this one lives up to them.

Comment by Letrabottle at 01/04/2020 at 17:08 UTC

403 upvotes, 2 direct replies

It's way easier for a bot to seem like a human pretending to be a bot than a normal human, which makes this whole thing kind of stupid because everyone is going out of their way to give bot like answers.

Comment by bolivar-shagnasty at 01/04/2020 at 17:15 UTC

2269 upvotes, 14 direct replies

To participate in r/Imposter visit ***new reddit***.

How 'bout no?

Comment by [deleted] at 01/04/2020 at 17:59 UTC*

2823 upvotes, 10 direct replies

To participate in r/Imposter visit new reddit.

Well, looks like I won't be participating this year. See you guys next year! o/

Edit: Ok, peeps, I am gonna save ~~the world~~ you all today. Actually if you just follow https://new.reddit.com/r/Imposter[1] it will be in new look, but Reddit will not switch the whole website to new look and your default setting will stay the same.

1: https://new.reddit.com/r/Imposter

Edit2: Damn, this went so big for me, I am having panic attack

Comment by [deleted] at 01/04/2020 at 18:06 UTC

154 upvotes, 4 direct replies

This looks like Google's captcha which actually trains their AI network

Comment by R3DT1D3 at 01/04/2020 at 18:15 UTC

384 upvotes, 7 direct replies

Honestly this just makes me realize how boring and unoriginal people on Reddit are. Like you could make a convincing bot just reposting the same few jokes or references and no one would be the wiser.

Kind of sad when you think about it.

Comment by __Geralt at 01/04/2020 at 19:13 UTC

189 upvotes, 3 direct replies

this is to tran a neural network, isn't it

Comment by TheFlightlessPenguin at 01/04/2020 at 18:24 UTC

222 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Is it just me or is this really dumb? Who wants to do the same question over and over. Plus everyone is pretending to be the imposter so it doesn’t exactly take skill

Comment by itsthebear at 01/04/2020 at 19:24 UTC

1410 upvotes, 8 direct replies

So I'm assuming r/Imposter is just us training your machine learning algorithm to put out more humanistic bots? Are you getting us to train our own cyber enemy? Will they be able to adapt user by user to deceive them? AND you want us to do it for free? Fuck China.

Comment by mrwallace888 at 01/04/2020 at 16:51 UTC

1727 upvotes, 11 direct replies

See people? You don't have to be a dick on April Fools, lmao, these guys proved it.

Thanks, Reddit Admins.

Comment by Zenblend at 01/04/2020 at 18:31 UTC

118 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Userbase, train this bot-detection AI for us.

Comment by Pemburuh_Itu at 01/04/2020 at 19:28 UTC

81 upvotes, 4 direct replies

This strikes me as an AI test....

Comment by lifelikecobwebsnare at 01/04/2020 at 20:24 UTC

6872 upvotes, 28 direct replies

This is 100% a Turing test for users to train Reddit’s bots. These will be used against us in the future. Who could have foresaw the damage Facebook was going to do to politics? It was just a place to add your friends and share stuff you like!

This is far more obviously dangerous.

Reddit admins must start auto-tagging their own bots and suspected 3rd party bots. Users have a right to know if they interacting with a person, or a bot shilling politics or wares.

The Chinese Govt doesn’t own a controlling stake of reddit for no reason.

This fucking stinks to high heaven!

Comment by Alexanderjac42 at 01/04/2020 at 18:42 UTC

41 upvotes, 0 direct replies

This gets boring really quickly when every round it’s the same question

Comment by SmurfRockRune at 01/04/2020 at 17:05 UTC

329 upvotes, 2 direct replies

This sounds really fun! Just like that one Jackbox game. Can't wait to.. oh.[1] Guess I don't get to play.

1: https://i.imgur.com/PMREw8l.png

Comment by MaximumGaming5o at 01/04/2020 at 19:59 UTC

153 upvotes, 0 direct replies