It's just Simon Willison (the person you are replying to) who always makes a pelican, as his personal flippant benchmark. It's not that deep.

No benchmark will be perfect, especially if it's public but it's a fun experiment to visually see how these models get better and better.

Why is it so wrong?

Thanks for the "scientific air" remark, that gave me a genuine LOL.

"The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down" -- Adam Savage