Two years of pelicans on bicycles: 103 SVGs, 66 models, and what the guy who invented the benchmark says about it
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In October 2024, Simon Willison gave sixteen LLMs the same eight words: Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle. He has been running it on every new model since. Twenty-three months later there are 103 of these drawings scattered across dozens of his posts, and he has written a section explai…
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Two years of pelicans on bicycles: 103 SVGs, 66 models, and what the guy who invented the benchmark says about it
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