the birth of LLMs

2026 LLM + image generation series: prompt telephone

The Renaissance gave us humanism, perspective, and the Birth of Venus. Six hundred years later we fed Venus back into a machine and got llamas playing the accordion. One could argue this is also a renaissance of sorts.

Venus on spaghetti cloud with lobster wings, rainbow vortex, pickles on unicycles — Model A

Absurd Birth of Venus variant 2 — Model B

Venus in shell with laser octopus, llamas with accordions, giant baguette — Model C

Absurd Birth of Venus variant 4 — Model D

Absurd Birth of Venus variant 5 — Model E

Absurd Birth of Venus variant 6 — Model F

Process

This is part of an ongoing series where I ask an LLM a question and feed its answer directly into an image model, a game of telephone between language and vision.

For this piece I prompted Qwen3-14B-MLX-4bit. Its answer was then handed, unedited, to six different image generation models, all using seed 42. What follows is how each one interpreted the same prompt.