Would love to see the results if they had used /goal or similar
"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok
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Re: "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok
#22Now add Deepseek, GLM and Kimi :-)
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#23Grok! 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?
The razor-wire at the bottom for Starry Night was clever, and very Grok. Really shows its military spirit. Edit: I just don't see the point of redacting the Mona Lisa
I read the balls as “houses”, though the phallic spire emerging from them dead-center is also very on-brand
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#24The Grok ones are so weird that they cross into uncanny and surreal. Truly bizarre and capable of eliciting feelings from me, if only bad feelings…
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#25As I looked through the images I was unimpressed entirely, at first. But, then I started thinking, these look a little... "childish" to me. Childish as in... A newish artist who is drawing a concept rather than light / forms (Which is something artists typically do as they understand drawing more and more). The rose in the vase specifically - some models understood that there was supposed to be shading, reflections,…
What's interesting is that the way in which they're childish is actually extremely human. In fact, one of the ways that you're often taught to draw more realistically is to stop thinking of the concepts as icons you're drawing the outlines of, and instead sort of blur your eyes and see things as they are: hues and values. In other words, become a camera or a printer that has no idea what it's capturing or printing ot…
Parrots can also sound extremely human, but it’s only mimicry.
How do we know the difference?
Re: "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok
#26Now this is a cool test. Sol's the best in each one, while Grok looks like the work of that person who "fixed" that Jesus painting..
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It keeps getting cheaper and better -- for me.
I get a lot more use (read: cheaper per interaction) and much better quality results from the $20 that I spend on this stuff every month than I did several years ago.
(And several years before that, it was all essentially unobtanium.)
Re: "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
The razor-wire at the bottom for Starry Night was clever, and very Grok. Really shows its military spirit. Edit: I just don't see the point of redacting the Mona Lisa
I read the balls as “houses”, though the phallic spire emerging from them dead-center is also very on-brand
I must admit, I have a natural tendency to overlook C&Bs, but solid catch -- it's there. Perhaps that explains the Mona Lisa redaction; Grok probably put more effort into that one.
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#29As I looked through the images I was unimpressed entirely, at first. But, then I started thinking, these look a little... "childish" to me. Childish as in... A newish artist who is drawing a concept rather than light / forms (Which is something artists typically do as they understand drawing more and more). The rose in the vase specifically - some models understood that there was supposed to be shading, reflections,…
Really odd to look at, considering if I saw any of these drawings from a human kid, I would say "good job buddy" and put it on the fridge.
The Grok ones in particular gave me that thought. Most of them really look like what a kid would do when given the same tools, while the other models' output have distinctly more "AI-ness" to them (for lack of a better term.)
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's interesting is that the way in which they're childish is actually extremely human. In fact, one of the ways that you're often taught to draw more realistically is to stop thinking of the concepts as icons you're drawing the outlines of, and instead sort of blur your eyes and see things as they are: hues and values. In other words, become a camera or a printer that has no idea what it's capturing or printing ot…
Parrots can also sound extremely human, but it’s only mimicry. How do we know the difference?
Yes, but Parrots don't mimic the stages of learning speech development like children do. They just memorize a phrase.
These SOTA LLMs aren't trying to mimic existing children's drawings, but interestingly they're following somewhat similar progression that human children do as they develop.