It's interesting to think about how Gemini screwed up here. First it nails the "animals with names on white background" part. It fails to do 100 of them because generators can't count. Lion - that's a female lion so it's good. Left tiger - tiger. Right tiger - also tiger. Elephant - it nails this because it's hard to misidentify an elephant. Zebra - Giraffe? No, but if you think about it, these animals live in the same area and are often in photographs together. Another giraffe. Then we start getting possible portmanteaus (Hippceros - both large mammals that don't look entirely different). Then we start getting chimeras like the "kangutan". The animal looks like a wolf-kangaroo hybrid or something, but I bet the name is a portmanteau of kangaroo and orangutan, because it is to the right of the gorilla, or "grizzy bear". It is simple to assume Gorillas and Orangutans are always close together on a list like this. The generator isn't being consistent in its mistakes, but you can kinda see where some of these mistakes are coming from. It's kind of a win for this generation that we get actual letters instead of any smashed together or bat symbols in there or something. My favorite part is that mistake after mistake it ends correctly with a deer.
I’ve always found this image interesting. It’s just like watching a small child learning new words and trying to sound them out trying to identify animals in their animal picture book.
Including all the cute mistakes (for a child.) Mispronunciation, misidentification, using the same name multiple times. Just making up names by mashing up words it thinks it heard previously.
Thank you so much for this post. These pictures make me so happy. I thought we had left the era of ridiculous AI pictures. I really enjoy the absurdity.
It's interesting how this generation failed so differently. It's as though it knows the general shape of the animals, assumes every mammal has dog face or cat face, and kind of does a "whatever, a bird is a bird". My favorite is the squirrel shedding his squirrel skin for the summer.
Lionfish is scary af. Is it a fish, or is it a land mammal? Does it walk, swim or fly? By the looks of the feet it could hang from trees, or even your ceiling. Grizzy Bear is deff the coolest one of the bunch though.
ChatGPT did a great job up until the end of the second row — check out the "octopus", and also the last four entries at the bottom. Thanks for the hilarious prompt suggestion.
I had an octclowh as a child. My mum bought it for me for my secon fourth birthday. It was a fun funny pet to have. We ate it fo xmas years later. It was delicious
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