I asked AI what my pet might be thinking and the answer was so on brand for my cat that I'm a little unsettled
Okay so I described my cat's behavior in detail. The way she sits just far enough away that you can't reach her. The slow blink she does right before she knocks something off a table. The 3am yelling for no reason.
I asked the AI to give me its best guess at what was going through her head.
It said something like "a rotating cycle of mild satisfaction, vague grievance, and a low level suspicion that things could probably be better but not enough motivation to do anything about it except occasionally make it your problem."
I read that and looked at my cat and she looked at me and I swear she knew. She knocked my water bottle off the desk thirty seconds later. Unprompted. Direct eye contact the whole time.I don't know what to do with this information but I feel like the AI understood her better in two minutes than I have in three years.
Posted May 12, 2026, 2:49 PM UTC