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by simonw 546 days ago
I've seen people using "draw a unicorn using tikz" https://adamkdean.co.uk/posts/gpt-unicorn-a-daily-exploratio...
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I did some experiments of my own after this paper, but letting GPT-4 run wild, picking its own scene. It wanted to draw a boat on a lake, and I also asked it to throw in some JS animations, so it made the sun set:

https://int19h.org/chatgpt/lakeside/index.html

One interesting thing that I found out while doing this is that if you ask GPT-4 to produce SVG suitable for use in HTML, it will often just generate base64-encoded data: URIs directly. Which do contain valid SVG inside as requested.

That came, IIRC, from one of the OpenAI or Microsoft people (Sebastian Bubeck); it was recounted in an NPR podcast "Greetings from Earth"

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/803/transcript

It's in this presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c

The most significant part I took away is that when safety "alignment" was done the ability plummeted. So that really makes me wonder how much better these models would be if they weren't lobotomized to prevent them from saying bad words.