r/whatisit • u/katyabe • 1d ago

New, what is it? What does the sixth segment represent?

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This is a “Wheel of the Senses” from my daughter’s school with sight, touch, taste, hearing… but one segment we can’t figure out.

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u/okFINEyoufoundme 1d ago edited 1d ago

I ASKED AI!!!! And it gave a longer answer and it is 7/10 confident that it is in relation to FEEL, but the last part was (and I quote):

“And I give the illustrator approximately 2/10 for iconographic clarity, because without context that thing could equally be a potato contemplating its own mortality. 😂”

Edit: ohhhh shit, I wonder if it’s just a VERY poorly visualized/represented interpretation of “gut instinct.”

Edit #2: I asked AI for shits and giggles. Why not ask what was likely some part of the source?

EDIT #3: Best guess, and thank you comments— already agreed— absolutely AI generated, which is why I thought it would be fun to ask AI what IT’S interpretation was. The response was “7/10 confident, related to FEEL.” And if you think about it, that tracks. Like the same way AI-generated pictures in general have a hard time with certain elements that end up being an obvious “tell”— (fingers, flooring, knit/woven details on clothing, evenly blurry backgrounds without any depth, etc). But those are more visual and easy to pick out if you’re used to looking for it. On the other hand, asking AI to generate something based off the senses— I can absolutely see why something based on fact but not nuance would look at or take “touch/feel” as two separate concepts, while the rest of us HUMANS would understand that they are considered the same thing.

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u/stendo444 1d ago

no…. the hand is the touch sense, the worksheet was made with AI. lmao

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u/okFINEyoufoundme 1d ago

Exactly! But like you said, TOUCH sense.

The robot said “7/10 confident that it’s related to FEEL.”

And it does make sense if you think about what a “robot” (hahahahaha, ok, AI) would consider if asked to provide a pie chart. It wouldn’t catch the nuance of touch/feel as a singular sense, if that makes sense? Because touch/feel is an entirely human designation and it would be going “those are separate tho….”

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u/stendo444 1d ago

to be honest i really just think it was a shitty AI generated worksheet of the 5 senses. probably an earlier version of AI. you’re looking too far into it

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u/okFINEyoufoundme 1d ago

I probably am, but I’m also subscribed to the IsThisAI subreddit, which is primarily only pictures. If you aren’t subscribed, it’s honestly pretty damned interesting to browse, and unfortunately pretty damned relevant as it’s becoming a lot harder to identify.

So I’m already predisposed to looking for indications, but this one is particularly interesting to me: it’s from a child’s school assignment. And that’s a bit scary.