"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok

If it is, it's a horrible ad. My main takeaway is that all of them were god awful at image generation and Fable was 20x more expensive and still awful.

Re: "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok

#6

Post by geroge_kyaw » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 10:04 PM UTC

Useless They are not image generation models.

Re: "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok

#7

Post by ksd482 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

Grok! LOL!

Seriously, what's going on there ? Why is it so different from others? Is it just behind technologically/training wise or it's using something fundamentally different?

Re: "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok

#8

Post by samuelknight » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC

geroge_kyaw wrote: post #6

Useless They are not image generation models.

Not useless. LLMs are the most general purpose computer algorithms ever created. They are getting smarter and cheaper at a geometric rate. What is a bad idea today could have useful applications tomorrow.

Re: "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok

#9

Post by Ekshef » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 10:28 PM UTC

ksd482 wrote: post #7

Grok! LOL! Seriously, what's going on there ? Why is it so different from others? Is it just behind technologically/training wise or it's using something fundamentally different?

Did Elon tell some poor engineer to give grok a prompt injection for drawing,"make it look like one of my childhood drawings!" Just like the Tesla truck?

Re: "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok

#10

Post by munk-a » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 10:30 PM UTC

samuelknight wrote: post #8

geroge_kyaw wrote: post #6

Useless They are not image generation models.

Not useless. LLMs are the most general purpose computer algorithms ever created. They are getting smarter and cheaper at a geometric rate. What is a bad idea today could have useful applications tomorrow.

> cheaper at a geometric rate

Citation needed - my company is paying more than ever for code generation. I have no reason to believe (given anecdotes) that anyone finds themselves in the opposite situation.