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I wonder if [good examples of] SVGs of pelicans on bikes are "being introduced" into training sets. Some of the engineers who work on this stuff are the kind to hang out here.

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It's possible, but honestly I've never seen a decent vector illustration of a pelican on a bicycle myself so they'd have to work pretty hard to find one!

They could just ask a designer to do a few bespoke illustrations, then generate synthetic data from that, right? Have an image model generate a set of variations, then convert them to SVG.

But looking at these images, Google clearly hasn’t done that yet.

Yeah, the dedicated image generators can produce really good pelicans riding bicycles now, and you could trace one of those into a vector SVG as training data.

I don't think it would be worth it though, it would be pretty obvious you had cheated on my benchmark when it drew a perfect pelican riding a bicycle and then failed at a flamingo on a unicycle.

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