> How many pelican riding bicycle SVGs were there before this test existed? What if the training data is being polluted with all these wonky results...

But Simon has demonstrated before that asking for any animal doing something silly will still get similar results from the same model.

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simonw 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I recently learned that there is an animated pelican riding a bicycle in 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit! https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/18/the-creative-spirit-of...

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thinkingemote 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you think this might be a kind of subconscious origin of your idea? A second of a move you saw in your early life / teens stayed with you as an example of an absurd thing to draw?

	▲	simonw an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's possible, but I think it's more likely that I was inspired by the TikZ unicorn thing, my love of pelicans (we have thousands of them in the harbor ten minutes from my house), and my knowledge that bicycles are difficult for humans to draw.