VLMs can run Picbreeder but produce less refined, more mode-collapsed archives than humans; modest selection noise, short context, and many prompted personalities improve diversity metrics at quality cost.
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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models
VLMs can run Picbreeder but produce less refined, more mode-collapsed archives than humans; modest selection noise, short context, and many prompted personalities improve diversity metrics at quality cost.