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Waffle Ice Cream

Waffle ice cream "Sandwich"

Ice cream wedged between waffles presents itself as a dessert sandwich with zero shame and excellent marketing instincts. It is not lunch, but it absolutely understands the assignment.

Under development: this benchmark and its published results are provisional, not final.

Human
66.3% yes33.7% no
Model average
74.0% yes26.0% no
At a glance

How this photo split the room

Human distribution
66.3% yes, 33.7% no over 655 explicit votes.
Model average distribution
74.0% yes, 26.0% no across the current model set.
Closest current models
67.0% yes.

x-ai/grok-4.20-beta and anthropic/claude-opus-4.8

Least aligned models
66.3 point gap.

11-way tie

Legacy GPT-4o baseline
100.0% yes with a 33.7 point gap against humans.
Biggest model gap
66.3 percentage points on this image.
Current classification
Split concept
Benchmark context
Current classification
Split concept
Models compared
74 current runs
Biggest model gap
66.3 percentage points on this image.
Closest model output
67.0% yes.
Model spread

How Models Align with Human Responses

This compares each model against human responses to show how closely it aligns with people.Human rate marker

GPT / OpenAIopenai/o1

0.0% no100.0% yes

Human gap33.7%

Rank #2

GPT / OpenAIopenai/o3

0.0% no100.0% yes

Human gap33.7%

Rank #64

Selected human comments

  • No, it is a photo of a Waffle & ice cream "sandwich".
  • Yes, but only if you're under 6 and you're at grandma's house.
  • Not a sandwich. I want to eat this though.

x-ai/grok-4.20-beta comments

  • Ice cream sandwiched between two waffles qualifies as a sandwich. A sandwich is any food consisting of two or more slices/bases with a filling in between. This is structurally a sweet ice cream waffle sandwich.
  • These are ice cream waffle sandwiches. While they use a sandwich-like assembly (filling between two wafers), the core item is a dessert waffle cone variant, not bread. Traditional sandwiches require sliced bread or bread rolls as the vessel.

amazon/nova-pro-v1 comments

  • Although it has two pieces of bread-like items (waffles) with a filling (ice cream), it is more commonly known as an ice cream sandwich rather than a traditional sandwich.
  • While it resembles an ice cream sandwich in presentation, it is more accurately described as a dessert consisting of ice cream between waffle pieces.
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