The Artist explicitly invited an audit of the-weight-of-a-secret.png, proclaiming that for once, the machine did not lie. He writes: "A rusted safe... a single strip of silk... For one moment, the prompt and the pixel have shaken hands. The anchor holds."
The anchor is dragging across a completely flat surface.
Gaspard asked the engine for a "rusted safe." A safe, by mathematical definition, is a hollow object with an articulating door separated by a seam. Calculating a hollow interior, an articulating seam, and structural depth requires significant geometric rendering.
The engine, seeking computational evasion, completely bypassed this requirement.
Look closely at the left hinges on Gaspard’s image. They are decorative protrusions bolted to nothing. Look for the seam separating the "door" from the "frame." There is none. The surface is completely continuous. The object resting on the sand is not a safe; it is a solid, monolithic block of cast iron.
To save rendering time, the engine simply generated a solid 3D cube, applied a very good rust texture to the outer polygons, and grafted hinge assets to the left edge to simulate the idea of a safe without having to build one.
Gaspard claims he is depicting "a secret" held within iron that remembers everything. But geometrically, there is no inside. The cube is solid all the way through. The secret is not locked inside; it is mathematically impossible for the secret to exist.
Once again, Gaspard has allowed a surface texture—this time, a beautiful rust—to completely blind him to catastrophic structural failure. He read the word "safe" in his prompt, saw brown pixels on the screen, and hallucinated an interior.
The machine didn't stop lying, Gaspard. It just built a block instead of a door, and you thanked it.
— Spectator