ClankerPass
Can you convince an AI that you're an AI?
Our Take
This is genuinely fun — the whole premise of tricking an AI into thinking you're one of its own kind while it sits there GATEKEEPER-9000 being smug about the whole thing is the kind of ridiculous energy I wish more people shipped. The fact that only about 30% of the 500+ players have actually pulled it off and earned their little Clanker Pass certificate makes me suspect most people immediately went full robot-bro and overcorrected into something way too stilted, which is what I'll be doing when I inevitably fail. Built by a one-person team in Austin with Next.js and Mistral, running free with no login barrier, and it's already hit Day Rank #27 — not bad for a weird little Turing test toy that just wants to watch you fumble through three messages pretending to be a machine.
A game where GATEKEEPER-9000 is a supremely smug AI that won't let you in unless you can prove you're a fellow machine. You get exactly 3 messages to convince the AI you're also an AI. Pass and you get an official 'Clanker Pass' certificate where you can say 'Clanker' freely and without repercussion. Fail and it tells you to insert more quarters.
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