Amazingly, cats perceive optical illusions as we do - but dogs do not
PS: Yes, it's POSSIBLE that this is AI. Pretty much anything can be AI, by now, and AI gets so good that it becomes less and less obvious.
If it is AI, I'd love to run the experiment with a real cat and a real dog - to see if they perceive optical illusions as we do.
That's the core point.
No, I would not want to torture a real cat, there have to be soft ways for testing a cat's perception.