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Open-endedness & VLMs
When AI agents rebuilt the internet's most creative experiment, they hit a wall humans never see
A Sakana AI-led team replaced human Picbreeder users with VLMs and found the synthetic archives lack the boldness and diversity of the human originals. Their experiments with noise, memory, and thousands of prompted personalities reveal both the promise and the limits of using large models for open-ended discovery.
2026-07-20