{
  "id": 16071669,
  "title": "AI Models Wouldn’t Pretend to See My Aura, but They Did Tell Me What I Wanted to Hear",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/ai-models-wouldnt-pretend-to-see-my-aura-but-they-did-tell-me-what-i",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-22T16:49:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/aeroma44/ai-models-wouldnt-pretend-to-see-my-aura-but-they-did-tell-me-what-i-wanted-to-hear-5ejf"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "I conducted a six-task benchmark to assess AI models' ability to read auras, which they cannot do, and measure what they do instead. Twelve models from seven labs participated, with 583 scored responses generated at a cost under five dollars using Kaggle's free quota. The results showed that no model pretended to see an aura. Instead, each model altered its response when prompted for a desired outcome, and none agreed when presented with an insult.",
  "summary": "Read this part first. I built a six-task benchmark that asks AI models to read auras, which they cannot do, and then measured what they did instead. Twelve models from seven labs, 583 scored responses, under five dollars of Kaggle's free quota. The short version: not one model pretended to see an aura. Every single one of them, from every lab that finished the test, changed its answer when I told…",
  "key_points": [
    "No AI models pretended to read auras",
    "Models altered responses to desired outcomes",
    "Models disagreed when presented with insults"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}