Hence it has become a meta-benchmark of relative progress in SVG image generation of a known target which has leaked into the training data and for which "every frontier AI team has/had a person at least partially dedicated to" at least checking if not optimizing.

I had intended to caveat that: I'm sure I'm not the first person to ask about this!

> you still see improvements

This is expected if they are training their models on it, right?

> objectively-bad results

Keen to learn when this has been the case, i.e. across version increments in major models.

I honestly assumed their comment was tongue in cheek humour, because positively no one actually cares how these models generate an SVG pelican riding a bicycle. It's some meme thing that this stuff always appears here.