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The Carwash Test: Can AI Hold on to the Actual Question?

carwashtest.org ↗ · AI Table · score 82.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A longitudinal AI reasoning diagnostic that tests whether models can preserve a prompt’s logical constraint when familiar wording pushes them toward the wrong answer.

Why it surfaced

Its deceptively simple prompt asks whether someone should walk or drive a dirty car to a carwash 100 feet away. The site preserves single-shot responses across 219 English-language runs and 17 model families, alongside separate multilingual and open-weight records, making the transcripts as important as the verdicts.

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August 19’s newborn domains include a Hawaiʻi road-trip radio that resumes each song after a GPS-triggered story, an offline Chattanooga recovery map, a 100 KiB operating system running Doom, and an archive of 169,588 Discord roleplay messages.

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 The Carwash Test: Can AI Hold on to the Actual Question? carwash-test.org

A longitudinal AI reasoning diagnostic tests whether models can preserve a prompt’s logical constraint when familiar patterns pull them toward the wrong answer.