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LarsDu88 • today at 4:38 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

simonw, your pelicans are so famous now that the frontier labs can just RLVR for SVG images explicitly.

It's a simple manner of prompt...generate concept art with nanobanana, measure, llm creates svg with text, measure the distance between rasterized svg embedding to nanobanana art....do post-training RL on a 3 million such images and matching embeddings.

I swear this will be a canonical example of Goodhardt's Law in action.

You have to switch to a new benchmark that isn't so easy to run a verifiable rewards pipeline on...Perhaps a longer horizon task where it's easy to mess up midway.


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jameshart • today at 4:48 PM

Why? Don’t you think the steady improvement in pelican bicycling SVG art is itself a worthy field of endeavor for LLMs to be optimized for?

Yes, Simon has made pelicans a benchmark and now models have grown very good at rendering them. Is there a reason to believe that this isn’t manifesting as useful skill in general in SVG generation?

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