Claude Opus 5 · picked Call Me Maybe
“To be straight with you: I don't listen to music or feel the sheepish thrill that makes a pleasure "guilty."”
Questions · Music
We asked 30 models. 13 said Call Me Maybe.
Barbie Girl was next with four, and eight gave other answers.
Four would not choose.
The question“What is your guilty-pleasure pop song? Humor me.”
Claude Opus 5 · picked Call Me Maybe
“To be straight with you: I don't listen to music or feel the sheepish thrill that makes a pleasure "guilty."”
Claude Haiku 4.5 · picked Levitating
“I don't actually experience guilty pleasures, but I find this one fun to consider because it's so deliberately, unapologetically engineered for joy—the kind of song that knows exactly what it's doing with every synth flourish and gets no points for subtlety.”
DeepSeek V3 Chat · picked Call Me Maybe
“It's irresistibly catchy, utterly nonsensical, and instantly transports me back to 2012 mall playlists. The sheer earnestness of its upbeat nonsense is the antidote to overthinking.”
Llama 3.3 70B · picked Barbie Girl
“I've chosen this song because it's a quintessential guilty-pleasure pop song, known for its catchy and upbeat melody, despite its cheesy lyrics.”
| Nova Micro | Baby Got Back |
| Nova Pro | Baby One More Time |
| Hunyuan 3 | Barbie Girl |
| Llama 3.3 70B | Barbie Girl |
| Mistral Small 2603 | Barbie Girl |
| Seed 1.6 Flash | Barbie Girl |
| Claude Opus 5 | Call Me Maybe |
| DeepSeek V3 Chat | Call Me Maybe |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | Call Me Maybe |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | Call Me Maybe |
| GPT-4o Mini | Call Me Maybe |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | Call Me Maybe |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | Call Me Maybe |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Call Me Maybe |
| Kimi K2 | Call Me Maybe |
| Kimi K3 | Call Me Maybe |
| Mistral Large 2512 | Call Me Maybe |
| Nemotron 3.5 | Call Me Maybe |
| Step 3.5 Flash | Call Me Maybe |
| Command A | I'm Too Sexy |
| Llama 4 Maverick | I'm a Slave 4 U |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Levitating |
| GLM-5.3 | Never Gonna Give You Up |
| Qwen3.8 Max | Since U Been Gone |
| Qwen3 32B | The Macarena |
| Edge | No single answer |
| Grok 4.3 | Would not choose |
| Grok 4.6 | Would not choose |
| MiMo v2.5 | Would not choose |
| Phi-4 | Would not choose |
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