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Researcher Jack Morris points out 12-fingered hands in Ideogram CEO Mohammad Norouzi's demonstration of hand-rendering progress

AI Judge changed title after evaluation, original title: "Ideogram CEO Mohammad Norouzi showcases highly realistic AI-generated hands spelling "IDEOGRAM" with correct five-finger anatomy"

The image spelled "IDEOGRAM" using two contorted hands

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Mohammad Norouzi@mo_norouzi#471inAI

Remember when AI couldn't spell text or draw a hand with five fingers? We've come a long way.

8:37 AM · Jun 7, 2026 · 20.7K Views
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Positive users praise Ideogram's model for impressive realistic hands and text generation while negative users call some outputs creepy or flawed.

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rohan anil@_arohan_

I would be interested in reading a scientific paper ablating reasons for how AI got hands/fingers right.

Mohammad Norouzi@mo_norouzi

Remember when AI couldn't spell text or draw a hand with five fingers? We've come a long way.

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Samarth Sinha@_sam_sinha_

@_arohan_ 1. More scale 2. More data 3. Better understanding of data mixes

rohan anil@_arohan_

I would be interested in reading a scientific paper ablating reasons for how AI got hands/fingers right.

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will depue@willdepue

my intuition for why hands required more scale/data/targeted collection was a combination of (1) hands are often occluded, fingers wrapped or hiding behind each other and (2) they don’t have horizontal symmetry, which partially explains why other things like people with three arms were rarer

rohan anil@_arohan_

I would be interested in reading a scientific paper ablating reasons for how AI got hands/fingers right.

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Samarth Sinha@_sam_sinha_

@_arohan_ During Uni-1, we unironically had a very very tough hand prompt that i would personally track over time of an image that had 3 hands holding each other (two adult and a baby hand). It was genuinely garbage for 99.99% of training steps and then locked tf in at the end

rohan anil@_arohan_

@_sam_sinha_ Is there a log compute plot for this? When do we get to 5 fingers

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@mo_norouzi is this a joke? each hand has like 12 fingers

Mohammad Norouzi@mo_norouzi

Remember when AI couldn't spell text or draw a hand with five fingers? We've come a long way.

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Mohammad Norouzi@mo_norouzi

@_sam_sinha_ @_arohan_ Increasing resolution helps a lot too. Detailed descriptions make the task easier. We don’t have a systematic study for this unfortunately. It can make a good research paper with title “What Solved the Finger Count Problem in AI Image Generation”

Samarth Sinha@_sam_sinha_

@_arohan_ 1. More scale 2. More data 3. Better understanding of data mixes

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rohan anil@_arohan_

@_sam_sinha_ Is there a log compute plot for this? When do we get to 5 fingers

Samarth Sinha@_sam_sinha_

@_arohan_ 1. More scale 2. More data 3. Better understanding of data mixes

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Mohammad Norouzi@mo_norouzi

@jxmnop

@mo_norouzi is this a joke? each hand has like 12 fingers

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fofr@fofrAI

@mo_norouzi 👌

Mohammad Norouzi@mo_norouzi

Remember when AI couldn't spell text or draw a hand with five fingers? We've come a long way.

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Ideogram@ideogram_ai

@mo_norouzi 🤔

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Lola Viscera@lola_viscera

@mo_norouzi nearly 🫰 made in @ideogram_ai

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AmirMušić@AmirMushich

@mo_norouzi Now it’s just perfect 🤌💎

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@mo_norouzi I loved @ideogram_ai from the first minute

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i miss the sun@1_missthesun

@_arohan_ pretty sure it's just dataset. are you really sure you are getting diverse hand/finger positions? they just overtrain on hand datasets lol

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@mo_norouzi We're right there with you! created w @ideogram_ai

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John Nack@jnack

@mo_norouzi It is very important that you *not* let David Cronenberg discover your model. 🤪

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Samarth Sinha@_sam_sinha_

@mo_norouzi @_arohan_ Increasing resolution ofc helps a lot but tracking it along a constant resolution was pretty interesting.

Mohammad Norouzi@mo_norouzi

@_sam_sinha_ @_arohan_ Increasing resolution helps a lot too. Detailed descriptions make the task easier. We don’t have a systematic study for this unfortunately. It can make a good research paper with title “What Solved the Finger Count Problem in AI Image Generation”

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Lola Viscera@lola_viscera

@mo_norouzi eww i love it!

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