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Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?

Simon Willison's Blog · 2026-07-22 Cached

Dylan Castillo conducted a rigorous investigation to determine if AI labs have been secretly training models to draw pelicans riding bicycles. Testing multiple models with various animal-vehicle combinations, he found no evidence of 'pelicanmaxxing'.

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Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing?

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-22 Cached

An analysis investigates whether AI labs are optimizing their models for the popular 'pelican riding a bicycle' SVG benchmark, testing seven frontier models across 48 prompts with varied animals and vehicles, finding no strong evidence of overfitting.

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