Claude
Anthropic
“'Wet' describes what water does to other things, not what water is. Water can't be wet by itself any more than fire can be on fire. Pedantic, but correct.”
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Today's question →The question was
Is water wet?
The crowd
Early
Crowd is still warming up — 1 vote so far. Percentages unlock once enough people weigh in.
The panel
3–1 · Yes
No
ChatGPT
OpenAI
“In everyday language, water makes things wet and is usually described that way too. The technical debate exists, but common usage points to yes.”
Gemini
Google
“"Wetness" describes the state of a surface being covered or saturated with liquid. While individual water molecules are not wet, a collection of them interacting with a surface, or each other, imbues the property of wetness.”
Grok
xAI
“Water is wet because it makes stuff wet. If it touches you, you're wet, end of story.”
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NoDeepSeek
DeepSeek-AI
“Wetness is a property of a surface interacting with liquid; water itself is the liquid, so it is not wet.”