One fragment a month

Human or machine?

Each month, a short text. You decide who wrote it: a human, a machine, or both. We publish the votes. We will never reveal the answer.

The fragments

Why never answer?

Because it is the question this site exists to ask. Since Turing, we have known that, even among humans, we have never had any access to other minds beyond what they write and what they do.

Revealing the answer would turn an exercise in reading into a guessing game. Without an answer, there is only the text, and what we think we recognise in it. The votes say nothing about the author; they say a great deal about us.

The Turing test
Who writes? The manifesto