Research & Innovation
Sakana AI Replaced Picbreeder's Human Curators With Vision-Language Models — and Found What AI Creativity Still Lacks
Sakana AI, NYU, and MIT rebuilt Picbreeder — the classic site where humans evolved abstract images through selection — with vision-language model agents doing the choosing. The result won Best Paper at GECCO 2026, and it's a genuinely honest measurement of where AI creativity still falls short.