The pelican has looked very same-y across all frontier models, same color bike, same camera angle, etc. I suspect this challenge is already too embedded in the training data to be a good signal when it succeeds, and maybe even when it fails in pathological ways mirroring existing AI pelicans on the internet.
SVG generation is a good test because it's extremely easy to subjectively assess with visual reasoning where humans are strong. However, pelican on a bike specifically may be overused at this point.
Variations of this comment have been posted for over a year. The pelican has now morphed into part of HN culture rather than a legitimate benchmark, but it's still valuable as a meme.
As often happens with random oddball things which become traditions in web communities, the replies asking what it is or complaining about it, begin to gain their own humor value.
Almost all Musk related negative news gets [flagged] and never hits the the front page, so there is still a silent base on the other "team" apparently.
