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The Pour-igin of Species

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You’re in a rush and you need to grab a bottle of wine for a special occasion. You’ve got $40 and no preference for red or white, but you like wines with animal labels. Which wine are you buying? Tap on a bottle or start scrolling to skip Tap on a bottle or start scrolling to skip Couldn’t decide? Maybe this info will help: cats have high ratings at a high price, birds are the middle of the pack for both price and quality, pigs are more likely to be cheap and low-rated, and amphibians/reptiles are more likely to be overvalued: higher prices for lower quality. How do we know? Keep scrolling. We collected data for wines that appeared on the popular app Vivino and used Chat-GPT Vision to help us categorize the animals on the labels with this prompt: This image is a wine label. Do you see any animals or humans on it? Read more in the methodology. Sometimes it was spot on. It correctly identified all of these labels as birds even though the artistic styles were different. But other times

The Pour-igin of Species Skip to main content The pour-igin of species The pour-igin of species By Charles Dar-wine By Fox Meyer with Jan Diehm You’re in a rush and you need to grab a bottle of wine for a special occasion. You’ve got $40 and no preference for red or white, but you like wines with animal labels. Which wine are you buying? Loading... Couldn’t decide? Maybe this info will help: cats have high ratings at a high price, birds are the middle of the pack for both price and quality, pigs are more likely to be cheap and low-rated, and amphibians/reptiles are more likely to be overvalued

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