It's a strange looking pelican just overlaid onto a mechanically illiterate version of a bike and the comments are like "the world isn't ready for this".
andy99 · 11m ago
The comment is
The details of the bike geometry and how it has a deep understanding of how the pelican would accurately use it is actually mind boggling, not sure society is ready for this
It's pretty clearly making fun of people hyping up new LLM releases.
consumer451 · 37m ago
It's related to the history of Simon Willison[0] having used this as a benchmark on many models.[1]
I believe this model's output is noticeably superior... but yeah, people do tend to get hyperbolic when new stuff happens it their domain of interest.
> I believe this model's output is noticeably superior
Sure, but at the same time Qwen3-30B-A3-2507 is also doing much better than most older models, even the bigger — and more capable — so I don't know how much is due to actual progress and how much is a new version of benchmaxxing.
williamdclt · 25m ago
this comment points out the same things as you. It's (not-so-obvious but pretty clearly in hindsight) sarcasm
thevillagechief · 12m ago
I thought it was sarcasm, then got confused because people seemed to take it seriously. So I decided to try the prompt on Gemini 2.5: Pro just says it can't generate an SVG, Flash generates a petty great one. Whatever copilot is using is also good. So I just assume even the image generated is a joke? People are starting to make me doubt my abilities to identify sarcasm.
siva7 · 27m ago
Can you do it better?
megaloblasto · 23m ago
Yeah
valianteffort · 35m ago
The dumbest among us tend to be the most in awe of mundane technology.
tmaly · 12m ago
it would be interesting if it could use a diffusion model to generate the bitmap then a different model to convert that bitmap to vector format. This could be an interesting way to reason about animations.
Tiberium · 59m ago
Yes, I tested the wrong version on accident :(
consumer451 · 57m ago
Heh, I was wondering. Haven't had a moment to set it up in my LibreChat yet. But, I thought I saw reasoning in some of the reddit comments.
croes · 25m ago
The pelican doesn’t look like a pelican and it looked like two images stacked on top of each other.
If GPT 4 couldn’t do that, than GPT 5 isn’t impressive but GPT 4 is underwhelming.
What about images, not SVGs, of clocks that show times different than 10 past 10?
https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1mettre/gpt5_is_alr...
I believe this model's output is noticeably superior... but yeah, people do tend to get hyperbolic when new stuff happens it their domain of interest.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simonw
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=simon+willison+pelican+ridin...
Sure, but at the same time Qwen3-30B-A3-2507 is also doing much better than most older models, even the bigger — and more capable — so I don't know how much is due to actual progress and how much is a new version of benchmaxxing.
If GPT 4 couldn’t do that, than GPT 5 isn’t impressive but GPT 4 is underwhelming.
What about images, not SVGs, of clocks that show times different than 10 past 10?