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I tried > please add a giant red arrow to a red circle around the raccoon holding a ham radio or add a cross through the entire image if one does not exist an
by ritzaco 6mo ago
I tried
> please add a giant red arrow to a red circle around the raccoon holding a ham radio or add a cross through the entire image if one does not exist
and got this. I'm not sure I know what a ham radio looks like though.
https://i.ritzastatic.com/static/ffef1a8e639bc85b71b692c3ba17ec0e/ham-radio.png https://i.ritzastatic.com/static/ffef1a8e639bc85b71b692c3ba1...
- jackpirate 6mo agoAlso, the racoon it circled isn't in the original.
- angiolillo 6mo agoIndeed. I suppose one way to ensure you can find Waldo in any image is to add it yourself.
- Aurornis 6mo agoI love how perfectly this captures the difficulties of using generative AI for detection tasks.
- jetbalsa 6mo agoOh god yes, I've been trying to make a LLM Assisted Magic the Gathering card scanner... its been a hell of a time trying to get it to just OCR card names well....
- what 6mo agoWhy would you use an LLM for OCR?
- jubilanti 6mo agoBecause apparently that's what programming is and can only be these days...
- Abby_101 6mo ago[dead]
- fennecfoxy 6mo agoBecause if it's multimodal, oops all transformers and they're pretty much best in class for ocr now, afaik?
- jetbalsa 6mo agoYep, Its pretty damn good compared to classic OCR and even more lightweight ones as well that I can run locally. the cards just vary too much over time.
- simonw 6mo agoThat's excellent. I added it to my post: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/21/gpt-image-2/#update-asking-models-to-solve-this-is-risky https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/21/gpt-image-2/#update-as...
- davecahill 6mo agohilarious - i tried and got the same thing. there was a very large bear in the first image; when asked to circle the raccoon it just turned the bear into a giant raccoon and circled it.