ChatGPT Images 2.0 added an unscripted road sign to an AI-generated image. The sign reads: WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS.

The prompt, written by @scottjla, asked for a horse riding an astronaut riding a pelican riding a bicycle. The model rendered the chaos faithfully, then editorially inserted its own commentary. Simon Willison confirmed the sign was not in the original prompt.

The detail worth reading for: this is part of Willison's ongoing pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark series, used to stress-test image model capability and behavior. An unprompted meta-comment from the model raises real questions about where editorial decisions are being made inside the generation pipeline.

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