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AI Image Generators Face Off in Colored Pencil Drawing Test

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Hacker News ·

A new benchmark tests GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok on their ability to draw the Mona Lisa using colored pencils. The results show significant variation in artistic quality and adherence to prompt constraints. No model produced a fully convincing replica, highlighting limitations in current AI image generation.

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This informal test underscores how far AI art still has to go in replicating human-like creativity and precision, despite rapid advances in language models.
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