Why Can't ChatGPT: draw a room without an elephant?

[merefield]

In the spirit of Why Can’t ChatGPT Draw a Full Glass of Wine?

How about this:

_{Credit for idea: Denis O. on LI (I shan’t link so as to encourage discussion here)}

We all know that LLMs struggle with negative prompts which may be a fundamental flaw with the “attention” mechanism which is responsible for so much magic otherwise. Can anything be done about it?

And yes, sometimes it works and you can modify the prompt to make it more likely that there is no elephant, but the instruction is crystal clear as it is so why the lack of reliability?

[SkyJoe]

I tried to do it without a bear rug and it put a bear and a rug in the pic. So I prefaced my prompt with “Forget everything you know about what a room looks like” and it worked.

[merefield]

Ok. Let’s try that:

[SkyJoe]

[polepole]

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But, this is interesting:
There is no an animal in these images