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Why ChatGPT Cannot Draw a Full Glass of Wine

Alex O'Connor · Explainer · 21 min · 2025 · YouTube title: Why ChatGPT Can't Draw a Full Glass of Wine
Why it's here

HN treats it as the origin of the full-wine-glass meme and an illustration of how models lack concepts missing from their training data.

What it covers

Alex O'Connor shows that ChatGPT cannot draw a wine glass filled to the brim, and ties the failure to David Hume's missing shade of blue. It asks what the failure says about how image models learn.