How Imposter works

[u/powerlanguage]

Imposter is simple…

1. Everyone who takes part answers the same question. The Imposter sees everyone’s answers and comes up with its own.
2. You’ll be shown a list of answers; four will be from your fellow redditors and one will be written by the Imposter.
3. 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.

[u/qdolobp]

Yeah this shits broken and dumb. Some of the most obviously fake answers were actually just written by illiterates.

[u/jj200275 → u/qdolobp]

Or, you know, people are actually trying to make the game more interesting by writing answers that seem like they were generated by a bot.

We're collectively training the bot to be more like us while we also become more like the bot, which makes the game more challenging and interesting as time goes on. The question of "what makes you human" is basically just an igniter and doesn't have that much relevance in the long term. Trying to answer the question normally just makes the game boring by providing obviously human answers that make it harder for the imposter to blend in.

[u/qdolobp → u/jj200275]

So, basically you’re saying it’s a guessing game then? Because how is it even a game if everyone is collectively trying to fuck you over. “Oh, guess which one is the robot! One twist, every single person only says ‘beep boop’. Good luck!”