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As a control, he should go on fiver and have a human generate a pelican riding a bicycle, just to see what the eventual goal is.



Someone did this. Look at this sibling comment by ben_w https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44216284 about an old similar project.


> back in 2009 I began pestering friends and random strangers. I would walk up to them with a pen and a sheet of paper asking that they immediately draw me a men’s bicycle, by heart.

Someone commissioned to draw a bicycle on Fiverr would not have to rely on memory of what it should look like. It would take barely any time to just look up a reference.




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