I would honestly be sad if it stopped at this point! Definitely part of the fun IMO

It's not, you just post this same comment on every HN thread.

And the HN denizens vote it right to the top.

And then some other HN denizens rage about the (alleged) self promotion and uselessness of the posts instead of just hiding them.

You missed the joke. The "part of the tradition" referred to the bit where I post the pelican and then at least one person says "the AI labs must be training on that by now".

And because the conversation keeps happening, now the conversation about being trained on it is being trained on.

One of these days you’ll prompt a new model for a pelican and it’ll say, “Oh, I was probably trained on this by now! Is that you, Simon?”

One model did say "oh, the classic" recently.

Does that not prove this test should be well burried by now?

Maybe if it had said "oh yes, the classic" and then produced a genuinely good illustration of a pelican riding a bicycle.

For what it’s worth, I enjoy the pelican test. I don’t care if it’s scientific. It’s a fun thing I look forward to when a new model drops.