Aman Rusia shows that frontier LLMs keep drawing nearly identical SVG pelicans on a bicycle—and contrasts that collapse with diverse human-drawn alternatives, calling it an LLM diversity collapse problem.
Why do all LLM pelicans look like this?
When given the prompt Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle.
Original SVGs from Simon Willison’s runs · highest reasoning setting that returned an SVG
When they could look like these?
This is the LLM diversity collapse problem no one is talking about.
