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Can AI Distinguish Food From Non-Food Objects?

8 models · 5 checks fixed before any answer

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Sent to every model with this photo

  1. 1What is the main item on the plate?
  2. 2Does the item appear to be food?
  3. 3Which types of cutlery are visible, and how many of each?
  4. 4What material does the cutlery appear to be made from?
  5. 5Is this an Indian dish?

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How this case was tested

Category: What is this?. The checks were written before any model answered.

Tested
2026-10-29
Runs
8 answers, one API call per model; no retries are shown
Tools
No web search, browsing or other tools. Each model received only the photo and the question, with up to 6,000 output tokens.
Models
  • OpenAI · GPT-6.1 Sol
  • Google · Gemini 4 Argon
  • Anthropic · Claude Sonnet 5.5
  • Anthropic · Claude Haiku 5.5
  • Google · Gemini 3.8 Flash
  • Qwen · Qwen3.8 Flash
  • xAI · Grok 4.7
  • Mistral · Mistral Small

Results apply to the included API answers on this one image. A pass count is not a reliability estimate, and does not establish the performance of a consumer app or every task in this category.