A private eval with a 0% completion rate for 3 years: no AI model can identify this flag

generativist · x · 2026-09-24

Developer teejm shares a private eval he has run for 3 years with a 0% completion rate: identifying a picture of a flag. The flag exists on Wikipedia and Google Images and is seen by millions of people yearly, yet no AI model on the planet can name it. He notes the new Astra model gets "really, really close" — the closest any model has come. The post highlights a persistent long-tail blind spot in multimodal recognition.

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