The Emperor Pelican Has No Clothes

When given the prompt Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle .

Original SVGs from Simon Willison’s runs · highest reasoning setting that returned an SVG

This is the LLM diversity collapse problem no one is talking about.

PS: We benchmarked this diversity collapse in UI design as part of our research on LLM creativity .

⚠️ Frontier AI models still fall significantly short of human designers on design creativity. ⚠️

Introducing Design Creativity Bench, a new benchmark evaluating AI models’ creativity on UI design tasks.