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It's not good at making ASCII art. This, for example, is when I ask it for a realistic depiction of the Eiffel tower on fire: .
by manucardoen 1y ago
It's not good at making ASCII art. This, for example, is when I ask it for a realistic depiction of the Eiffel tower on fire:
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- yesbabyyes 1y agoThis is something I and a few of my colleagues have noticed, as we asked several models to draw ASCII art of a wasp, which is one of our logos. The results are hilarious, and only seem to get worse as you ask it to do better.
- arresin 1y agoArt is highly subjective
- ohgr 1y agoI subjectively judge that as shit.
- FrostAutomata 1y agoASCII art is extremely difficult for LLMs due to how characters are converted into tokens without preserving their relative positions.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- beklein 1y agoGreat point, but you need to have a good understanding in how LLMs work to understand this limitation. If you don't have an intuitive understanding think like it's one of these draw on my back games, just each new token is a new human in the loop, known words are like simple shapes you felt before 100 times on your back and are easy for you to reproduce and change, random ASCII strings are harder to _grasp_ and will produce a fuzzy output... all models are wrong, but some are useful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA_DQHoxj34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA_DQHoxj34
- light_hue_1 1y agoThis isn't the reason. Models are pretty good at understanding relative positions. We put that in them and reward it a lot. The issue is the same as why we don't use LLMs for image generation. Even though they can nominally do that. Image generation seems to need some amount of ability to revise the output in place. And it needs a big picture view to make local decisions. It doesn't lend itself to outputting pixel by pixel or character by character.
- cucubeleza 1y agowell, I asked to GPT to draw Arnold Schwarzenegger: ______ / \ | O O | | __ | \______/ |||| /--||--\ / || \ | || | | / \ | \__/ \__/ || || || || / | | \ /_/ \_\
- DuncanCoffee 1y agoReminds me of the abomination of nature you could build in Monkey Island 4 https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RiwL9awO5y0 https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RiwL9awO5y0
- cucubeleza 1y agojeeeeeeesus christ that's horrible, but it's cool that you can do that
- KyleBerezin 1y agoThat's amazing. It really captured the likeness of ol' Arnold.
- bezbac 1y agoI've read that the results improve if you ask them to write a program that creates the desired ASCII art. Haven't tried it myself yet so far.