When shown a JPEG rendering of the SVG pelican-on-a-bicycle image it had generated, Inkling misidentified the bird as a 'stork or seagull' rather than recognizing it as a pelican.

Testing Inkling's multimodal self-description, Simon Willison found the model failed to recognize its own SVG pelican drawing, calling it a stork or seagull instead. ✦ AI generated

Inkling · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-16 · original ↗

This is a cheerful, flat-vector cartoon illustration featuring a white bird riding a bicycle across a green landscape. The Bird: The central figure is a stylized white bird—resembling a stork or seagull—with a plump, rounded body.

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