[bergheim]

Anyone care about these pelicans that always come up anymore?

Clearly at this point they are part of the training data.

They even all look sort of ish the same. Daytime, colors,...

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Without being mean, I encourage you to go look at some of simonw's writing on this topic, which he has addressed repeatedly (and IMO satisfactorily.)

I know because I too had this initial take; however, upon analysis, it is not sound.

[bergheim]

I know he is an AI influencer that promotes his blog any chance he gets.

I agree as well that he writes many interesting things.