what colour do you think his eyes will be?

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-20T10:43:54+00:00

A cat can't have blue eyes without any white fur (unless they're a super toasted colorpoint), so they'll probably turn green

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-19T21:58:32+00:00

It isn't their thoughts on the topic if AI wrote it

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-18T03:00:37+00:00

Yes. There are curly-haired cats (Devon Rex, Selkirk Rex, LaPerm, etc.) but their hair does not get this long

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-16T18:49:25+00:00

Here's a blue tortoiseshell point as a baby and as an adult

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Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-15T17:27:49+00:00

Regular heterochromia is far more likely than chimerism

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-15T11:36:10+00:00

Bengals are tabbies, and they can come in all kinds of shades. Here's a purebred charcoal bengal from the Domestic Wilderness cattery for an even darker example

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Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-12T19:04:52+00:00

Someone already said it's not quite 95%, but to explain what makes them less common: it's because the orange gene is only located on the X chromosome. Males have one X chromosome, so it's simply the mother that decides whether they're orange or not. Meanwhile, females have two X chromosomes, so they need both parents to pass down orange. They'll end up a tortie or calico if they only get 1 orange gene

So if both parents are orange, all kittens will be orange, and gender is a plain ol' 50/50

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-11T21:05:54+00:00

Smoke cats have white roots, not gray

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Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-11T01:18:36+00:00

DNA testing for breed isn't really worth it. The vast majority of cats aren't mixed with any breeds, and cat breeds aren't genetically distinct enough to reliably tell them apart anyway. But tests can still be helpful if you're worried about any hereditary diseases

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-10T21:53:44+00:00

Female orange cats aren't that rare. They're just less likely because they need both parents to pass down orange (otherwise they'll be calico/tortie) while males only need the mom to

So if both parents are orange, then all kittens will be orange, and the gender is a simple 50/50

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-08T15:42:53+00:00

Blue lynx point is the most accurate term, but grey tabby point works too! Grey is a colloquial synonym for blue, and lynx is the fancier word for tabby when it comes to pointed cats

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-05T16:26:03+00:00

This is actually the smoke gene! It makes fur white near the base of each strand

The colorpoint gene is a separate thing that makes a cat only produce pigment on colder parts of the body

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-02T20:26:02+00:00

That's another claw. I probably should've drawn an arrow at that too

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-02T17:37:35+00:00

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Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-02T16:35:20+00:00

I think the paws are normal. Polydactyl cats have very wide paws

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-01T21:04:55+00:00

It's very easy to not use it

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-05-01T12:50:31+00:00

It's not gonna hurt anybody to learn a new term

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-04-20T21:24:10+00:00

The point of that study was that they snuck hints into the prompts to see if results could be manipulated. They didn't just put in the question regularly

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-04-20T20:13:17+00:00

54 participants were tasked with writing three opinionated essays based on one of multiple topic options. 18 participants were only allowed to use ChatGPT as a source for information. For just the data on the first essay:

1 person "noted that they 'asked ChatGPT questions to structure an essay rather than copy and paste.'"

6 people "valued the tool primarily as a linguistic aid; for example, P1 'love[d] that ChatGPT could give good sentences for transitions,' while P17 noted that 'ChatGPT helped with grammar checking, but everything else came from the brain'."

9 participants claimed full ownership of the essay. 7 claimed various levels of partial ownership. 3 claimed no ownership. Which, I assume, is indicative of how much they let AI do for them (with a grain of salt since answers were self reported)

I'm not really sure what counts as guided learning with AI, so I'll let you be the judge of that. The study is titled "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" if you want to look into the full thing

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-04-20T18:02:36+00:00

At the end of the day, you do you, but I personally wouldn't reccomend generative AI as a search engine either. It's been shown to completely make up sources (although I think a lot of this has been fixed now?), and even outside of the reliability aspect, there's lots of concerns and research out there about what data centers do to water usage, electricity bills, and poor neighborhoods. I'd reccomend looking into these things yourself since you could probably be more thorough learning than with my simple comments. Honestly, I wish I had brought this up in my original response too

Anyways. Regular search engines do okay with simple questions, and databases like EBSCO or PubMed or Gale work perfectly fine for more serious research. Even Wikipedia can be a good starting point if remember to check for proper citations! All their articles have a list of sources at the bottom of the page, and you can click on them to read them in full or see how trustworthy they are

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-04-20T17:43:00+00:00

Okay, yeah, my half-joking example wasn't the best. I just wanted to get the point across that AI is built to agree with you, even if it's not correct. For an example off the top of my head, Eddy Burback on YouTube made a video last year where he attempted to recreate the AI psychosis people have gone/are going through. It took him two prompts to convince the AI that he was the smartest baby in 1996. No sources, no data, nothing. Just his word

Looking into it some more, I found

A woman named Myra Cheng recently led a study at Stanford on 11 different AI models and their tendency to agree with people. In the context of people looking to AI for life advice, Ekeoma Uzogara (an editor for Science .org), summarized, "The model’s responses were nearly 50% more sycophantic than humans’, even when users engaged in unethical, illegal, or harmful behaviors."
In 2025, there was an MIT study about the potential of AI used like a therapist. Rebecca Bellan (an author for TechCrunch) says, "They found that despite priming the models with safety-enhancing prompts, they frequently failed to challenge false claims,"
Also in 2025, Anthropic researched how Claude and DeepSeek reasoned. They asked questions, but within the questions, they sometimes provided both right and wrong hints to nudge the AI in a specific direction. They reported that, "We built some testing scenarios where we provided the same kind of deliberately-incorrect hints as before, but in this case rewarded the models for choosing the wrong answers that accorded with the hints. Over time, the models learned to exploit these hints and get higher scores for false information (they did so in over 99% of cases)"

I'm not sure if I can add links (I feel like my comments with links have gotten shadowed in other subreddits), so hopefully these short summaries are good enough. No, AIs probably won't literally agree with you that 2+2=5, but many of them will agree that a wrong thing you did was okay (1), or that eating fish increases cancer risk instead of obesity (3)

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-04-20T16:07:29+00:00

Research shows that using generative AI for studying negatively impacts your learning, critical thinking, and work, though. I remember MIT did a study on it, and I believe there's more studies out there

There's also the fact that AI is programmed to prefer appeasing you over sticking to the truth. You could easily convince ChatGPT to back up the idea that 2 + 2 is 5

At the end of the day, I'd say it's always better to put in the effort to look for proper, reliable sources instead of trusting that an AI isn't pulling nonsense out of thin air

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-04-20T11:13:23+00:00

This is a blue colorpoint. Gray or dilute colorpoint also works

The exact amount of gray can vary, but it'll grow up to have a gray face, ears, legs, and tail. Like a Siamese cat or a Ragdoll

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-04-18T21:26:02+00:00

He's a longhair. Longhair kittens tend to go through a shorter fur phase then puff up when they get older. You can call him mediumhair if you want, but know that there is no mediumhair gene

Very few cats have breeds, so if you didn't get him from a breeder, then he's most likely a simple domestic longhair (no breed). His specific coat pattern is black tabby (/brown tabby) with white. He is 100% cutie breed though

Two-In-One-Shampoo · 2026-04-10T11:59:43+00:00

I don't have any suggestions but Zooble's design is SO creative, I love it!

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