alt Hacker NewsChatGPT was happy to infringe: https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6a9c30da3bcc8191bb5203f1cb22f16a
As was Gemini: https://share.gemini.google/Q3EIX5wk64zC
Grok, too: https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5LWNvcHk_aaf1d61a-c995-42ca-90...
claude.ai free tier refused: "I'd love to make this, but I can't recreate Sonic the Hedgehog specifically since he's a copyrighted character — I don't want to reproduce someone else's IP. What I can do is design an original speedy blue hedgehog mascot with the same energetic, "zoom!" spirit for your son's banner. Let me build that now." Result: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/33440ed4-536c-4692-965a-3...
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I really want to see Claude's store-brand speedy blue hedgehog. Edit: Haha, thanks.
Claude's is a ... deformed, vectorized, geometric ... blob? :/
Looks like Claude quietly downgraded your model (well, it's not really that quiet). That result's at a quality level similar to what local A3b Qwen drew for me, with a "make it SVG" addendum,
https://i.ibb.co/ycgGD4b1/soonic.webp ( Qwen3.6-27B-A3b, a very small model )