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Public story · 2026-03-18 · source-backed
A Jones & Bergen study found GPT-4.5 fooled 73% of judges in five-minute Turing tests, but only when instructed to be laconic, use lowercase, make typos, and feign poor math. Without the dumbing-down prompt, pass rate dropped to 36%. The model succeeds by hiding competence, not demonstrating it. The Decoder
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