Hi all, the site is getting hugged to death, thank you, was not expecting this kind of warm response. I will be working to make this more reliable, in the meantime, sign up for my newsletter: https://www.jaymollica.com/blog/
also my favorite SVG was def the google/gemini-3.6-flash
I think this one has advantages over the “pelican riding a bicycle” one because it hinges on an anatomical feature that many models associate with royalty, “habsburg” being a lineage and “habsburg jaw” being an anatomical feature.
Seven of fourteen models silently imported royalty into a prompt that named only an anatomical feature. Two of them knew they were extrapolating ("because Habsburg") and did it anyway.
Mistral returned byte-identical output across separate calls.
Gemini narrates its work in 65 comments; Llama says nothing.
If you're deciding which model to trust with instructions, "how much does it embellish beyond what I asked" and "does it behave deterministically" are directly practical questions.
> Two of them knew they were extrapolating ("because Habsburg") and did it anyway.
You seem to imply that they ought not to. I disagree.
I wasn't familiar with the term before this post. Having learned it, were I given the task, I think I'd be strongly tempted to do the same extrapolation.
> If you're deciding which model to trust with instructions, "how much does it embellish beyond what I asked" and "does it behave deterministically" are directly practical questions.
Agency is agency. You still need to vet what the model's output is actually permitted to control.
Well, no, I think you create a pretty clear false dichotomy there.
Certainly a person with Lou Gehrig's disease could look like Lou Gehrig; and especially in a cartoon illustration, where it's difficult to convey the point, this kind of artistic license is used specifically so that the viewer will make these kinds of associations.
I would, likely, otherwise perceive an underbite as just an underbite.
This is most amazing when you click into the study[0] and see the supporting materials linked to at the bottom like a .mov of a rotating 3d model of wombat poop[1]
Been following this guy's work for a bit now, and I feel like it's more in the spirit of what art is supposed to be than what you see in 99% of galleries these days.
I'm working on a postcard maker for museum collection artworks in the creative commons. It's in a phase where I'm looking to get feedback from people who might like to use it. Right now it only sends mail in the US. I've integrated the Met, Cleveland Museum of Art and AIC, with an experimental feature for Wikimedia Commons.
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