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"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok
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Four AI models, GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok, were tasked with drawing the Mona Lisa on a blank canvas using colored pencils. Each model executed strokes, blended colors, erased, and evaluated its work to refine the drawing.
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- Praise: Grok 4.5 shows impressive performance, outpacing composer2.5 while maintaining speed — a sign of its potential in code-focused applications.
- Praise: LLMs are evolving rapidly and becoming smarter and cheaper, suggesting that today's limitations could lead to innovative uses in the future.
- Concern: Many commenters find the image outputs childish and lacking depth, with models failing to grasp basic artistic concepts like shading and reflections.
- Concern: The general consensus is that these models are not image generation tools, leading to skepticism about their usefulness in creative tasks.
- Concern: Critics argue that the demonstration feels more like an advertisement than a genuine showcase of AI capabilities, with overall results being disappointing.