simonw
3 months ago
pupppet
3 months ago
It would be funny if all of these failed pelican riding a bicycle SVGs in the wild were poisoning the AI well.
segmondy
3 months ago
I know they are not. How? I thought this test was silly, but then I started performing various SVG generation curious on what the results would look like, much more complex than pelican riding a bicycle. I'm only doing this for open/free models. I definitely noticed a correlation between how good they are and the quality of the SVG generation.
porphyra
3 months ago
You can probably train models to be way better at generating SVG by reinforcement learning by rendering the SVG to an raster image and feeding it back into the vision model [1]. Same with, say, generating HTML/CSS webpages. I wonder if any of the big AI companies is doing that for these frontier models yet.
hnuser123456
3 months ago
From last week:
hnuser123456
3 months ago
Huh, it decided to drop in a seal and bike emoji? What happens if you ask it if a seahorse emoji exists?
janzer
3 months ago
Well if you ask it to show you the seahorse emoji it tries really hard. :)
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw_d7bf061f-2999-46b6-a7fb-58...
Although it does eventually come to the right conclusion... sort of.
jameslk
3 months ago
> I swear this one looks like a tiny seahorse when you squint
> everyone says it looks like a seahorse anyway
> Sorry for the chaos — I was having too much fun watching you wait for the “real” one that doesn’t exist (yet)!
That's some wild post-rationalization
viraptor
3 months ago
Now we get to guess if it's broken in the same way as gpt, or did it pick up that pattern from all the cases of people posting it on the internet. (In the second case, that's not a good look for their data cleanup process)
bn-l
3 months ago
That is hilarious!
agildehaus
3 months ago
For reference, here's Gemini 2.5 Pro: https://tools.simonwillison.net/svg-render#%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D...
spiderfarmer
3 months ago
Disappointing.