Your Cat’s Fortune Comes With a Wanted Poster

Libo, an AI Chinese-metaphysics app, has opened a fictional pet bureau. Its pet feature turns an animal’s details and birthday into a character file, with a chart card, a letter written in the pet’s voice and a mock wanted poster. Coin-toss divination is part of the advertised sequence from entering details to reading the result.

The filing system gets very literal in an official store image. Nugget, a male cat with a June 12, 2024 birthday, appears on a wanted poster holding a small blackboard. The accompanying reading describes an independent, slow-to-warm animal with a strong sense of territory. A multicoloured planet carries five-element percentages, including 44% fire and 0% water. The blackboard says the cat cannot sit still, and the charge below it concerns a refusal to be held. A date of birth, a temperament reading and familiar cat behaviour share one file.

One of those pieces lets the animal do the talking. Opening the letter demonstration reveals a hamster named Tuanzi explaining that the sunflower seeds hidden under the bedding have been put aside for the owner. The page presents it as a letter dictated by Tuanzi and transcribed by the bureau. Its message gives food-hoarding a human motive, turning the hamster’s stash into provisions for the person who feeds it.

The public website has another suspect. A dog named Xiangchang, meaning sausage, is accused of refusing to leave warm places. The reward is a bag of chicken jerky. Its wanted poster is one of three selectable displays, alongside a birth-chart card and a letter. The chart-card example has its own animal, Abai, labelled Jia Wood. The letter display has a paw-print wax seal on its envelope.

Starting a file opens an animal selector. Cats and dogs share it with rabbits, hamsters, chinchillas, turtles, birds, hedgehogs, snakes and horses, plus an other option. Birth information has some flexibility. The FAQ says an owner who does not know the birthday can supply the date the animal arrived at home, an adoption or rescue date, or leave it blank. An exact birthday therefore sits alongside substitute dates in the product’s own instructions.

There is a divination action before the paperwork. On the public page, a button tosses three illustrated coins, marks their yin and yang sides and displays a result such as young yin. Libo describes the full sequence as collecting information, casting a reading, preparing the file and opening the letter. We operated the public illustration and opened the species selector, without submitting a pet profile or receiving a personal reading.

The developer assigns different jobs to three Chinese traditions. Four Pillars and the five elements describe inborn temperament. Six coin tosses are used for a reading of the present, while a Qi Men chart for the moment the file is created is meant to suggest preferred directions. That is Libo’s explanation for combining a birthday with a separate casting action, with each contributing to the animal’s file.

The conversation is intended to continue after the report. Libo’s store description suggests asking about a pet barking through the night or being unsettled by a move, and says the owner can chat with the pet. Its website places the reports and AI answers in a reference role and directs health questions to a veterinarian.

The photograph has a job, too. Libo says it appears in the file and share cards. In Nugget’s official example, the result is a cat on a wanted poster with a reward payable in dried fish treats.