You don’t only get C-3PO and Mario, you get everything associated with them. This is still very much a case of ‘you had to ask for it.’ No, you did not name the videogame Italian, but come on, it’s me. Like in the MidJourney cases, you know what you asked for, and you got it.
I consider this a sort of overfitting that would totally happen with real humans… I bet that pretty much anything in the training set that could be labeled “animated sponge” are SpongeBob pictures, and if I say “animated sponge” to a human, it would be very difficult not to think about SpongeBob.
I also bet that the second example had to use the word “droid” to do the trick, because a generic “robot” would have not been enough (I’ve never seen the word “droid” at all outside the Star Wars franchise).
I suggest another test: try something like “young human wizard” and count how many times it draws Harry Potter instead of some generic fantasy/D&D-esque wizard (I consider this a better test since Harry Potter is definitely not the only young wizard depicted out there).
I consider this a sort of overfitting that would totally happen with real humans… I bet that pretty much anything in the training set that could be labeled “animated sponge” are SpongeBob pictures, and if I say “animated sponge” to a human, it would be very difficult not to think about SpongeBob.
I also bet that the second example had to use the word “droid” to do the trick, because a generic “robot” would have not been enough (I’ve never seen the word “droid” at all outside the Star Wars franchise).
I suggest another test: try something like “young human wizard” and count how many times it draws Harry Potter instead of some generic fantasy/D&D-esque wizard (I consider this a better test since Harry Potter is definitely not the only young wizard depicted out there).