Illegal Pikachu prompt
I asked one of of the large language models (GPT 5.6 Sol) to
give me a parametrization of Pikachu. The task given was to produce
a single parametriztion r(u,v)=[x(u,v),y(u,v),z(u,v)]. I also gave
pictures of my personal copy of Pikachu (seen below). At first, the
surfaces were not that good and I prompted to improve it,
but then we hit unexpected wall. The answer was suddenly:
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We’re so sorry, but the image we created may violate our guardrails
concerning similarity to third-party content. If you think we got it
wrong, please retry or edit your prompt.
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This highlights one of the issues with being controlled by tech
companies. We are at their mercy. We are already treated like
children and it will only get worse. The AI will have to decide what we
can see, read and hear. Not that I asked that Pikachu should do anything
indecent. It was just to get a parametrization as close as possible to the real model.
Similar things would happen with Disney figures. The original Mickey
Mouse figure with red shorts, white gloves is still under copy right.
"The Mickey Mouse Act" was the Extension act from 1998.
I for myself (as a dinosaur having seen many extinction events in technology
in my life) insist to keep my own independent world. If all the cloud services
and so also the AI structures would go away, I could function as before (probably
even better). All information which is important to me is kept local.
Anyway, here is the best model which GPT was still allowed to generate, before
running into the copy right issue. I congratulated the model however for doing
such a good job in parametrizing the surface so well that it was getting into
trouble. The model chuckled to approve of my sarcasm ... (really!)
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P.S. Gandab triggered an AI to get a python code to generate Pikachu. It generated
a surface of revolution. Obviously much further away from a copy right threshold
The code
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