Reverse Turing Test
by Alvin Alaphat, Dhiren Shetty
The reverse turing test. Convince the AI you are also an AI. Aids in the fight against deep fake detection.
The idea
The Turing Test — reversed. Instead of an AI trying to trick humans they are human, you have 60 seconds to convince an AI that you are also an AI. This fun challenge builds a real dataset of training data to help in the fight for deepfake detection in a world increasingly rampant with AI-generated videos.
What it does
An AI runs a 60-second reverse Turing test on you — you try to convince it you're an AI while it interrogates you, catches your human tells live, and rules ADMITTED or DENIED to enter its exclusive AI society.
How it works
PALmaker for the avatar, Lovable for the end to end user experience, Google Gemini, Supabase
What's next
We'd want to take the recordings of the video interrogations to use as training data to help detect deepfakes and AI generated videos on the internet. This acts similar to Captcha where users are helping to supply the training data to make machines better but also differentiate between machines and humans.
■ Event Recap · June 27, 2026 · Tavus HQ
PALmaker × LovableHACKATHON
Built with PAL Maker + Lovable, together with the ProductTank SF community — Tavus HQ, San Francisco, June 27, 2026.
Chapter 01 / 04
Doors open.
Welcome, builders — badges on, credits claimed, countdown running.
The winners
On the podium
■Judges' favorites
Ten more that stood out
The full lineup
A–Z
■ The judging panel
Eleven judges. Every build scored.
★ THE JUDGING PANEL
- 01Saswat MishraProduct @ Hyperbound
- 02Gagan BhatApplied AI @ Anthropic
- 03Gaurav MahajanEngineering @ Apple
- 04Ankit SultanaEngineering @ Notion
- 05Karsh PandeyProduct @ Virta Health
- 06Zane HomsiProduct @ Glean
- 07Kelly PengFounder @ First Intuition
- 08Rohan BenkarEngineering @ Coursera
- 09Darius KarelEngineering @ OpenAI
- 10William GaoMentor @ StartX · stealth founder
- 11Karthik Ragunath Ananda KumarAI Research @ Tavus
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■June 27, 2026