Yeah, I saw this yesterday and while most of these look legitimate, some of them are a real stretch.
It does make me wonder if these models suffer from pareidolia. If so, does that say anything about how similar they are to human intelligence? Or are they basically "inheriting" humanity's evolutionary biases as a function of their having been trained on human-generated content?
They can be confirmed by looking at the ground up close. The shapes are made removing pebbles from the desert floor and replacing them with differently-coloured pebbles.
The ground survey provides good confirmation that there was some human-created formation, though maybe what exactly they depict is harder to figure out.
It does make me wonder if these models suffer from pareidolia. If so, does that say anything about how similar they are to human intelligence? Or are they basically "inheriting" humanity's evolutionary biases as a function of their having been trained on human-generated content?