GPT-5.6 Drew the Mona Lisa for $7.74; Claude Spent $160 (tryai.dev)
GPT-5.6 Sol needed 29 logged tool calls to finish; Claude Fable 5 took 54, working the same virtual pencil box, draw, smudge, erase, a peek at the target, inside a benchmark that prices every stroke in tokens and dollars.
The scoring table quietly contradicts the write-up's own verdict: Gemini's similarity score actually beat Sol's on both paintings, yet Sol is the one crowned "runaway leader." A Hacker News reader wasn't buying the piece at all, calling the whole benchmark AI-written.
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