Comment by ozgung

1 day ago

Of course, the sun again. Everyone knows that a pelican can't ride a bicycle without a sun in the frame and can only go right.

I wonder if we'll start to see pelicans like a mascot of sorts. You could have a pelican pin on your backpack.

> "What's up with the pelican?"

Well you see in the early days of LLMs we wanted a fun way to test new models, and there was this blog, ...

  • Do people really want to be seen making using AI part of their personality?

    • Like most things, it depends. Think of the web devs of yore with MacBook Pros and Angular and React and Vim stickers stuck aside their glowing Apple logo (no longer a thing unfortunately). IMO having a pelican pin would be more of the same - advertising you are a developer of some kind. An attempt to bridge the gap to a stranger who might be into the same thing. The tech changes, the desire to signal things doesn't. The usual Exceptions(tm) apply of course.

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    • Several people I work with have adopted its mannerisms unironically. Then again we don't exactly hang out outside of work.

The grass too, everyone knows bikes ride on grass.

  • I think models consider this composition as a meme at this point. They don’t generate a pelican on a bicycle, they generate “the pelican on the bicycle”. A well-known composition with the sun, the grass and occasionally a scarf.