Pelican SVG creativity debate

Aman Rusia’s October 14 post compares thirteen model-labeled illustrations responding to a prompt for an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle, crediting Simon Willison’s original runs. It contrasts that grid with twelve more varied scenes and argues that models exhibit a lack of creative diversity.

The linked English Hacker News discussion questions whether a minimal prompt should produce a generic scene, shares prompting experiments and debates the difference between randomness and creativity. The comparison is a curated visual argument; it does not establish that model diversity has declined over time or that all image-generation systems behave alike.