It's wild how much of a difference this is - images are coming in at around 35-40s. Very noticable, and makes a difference when you're iterating quickly: https://jjcm.org/gpt-image-2.5-speed.mp4
ChatGPT Images 2.5 (openai.com)
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jjcm 14 hours ago
I use gpt image 2 very heavily for my current project (ai UI design tool). The biggest improvement I'm seeing with this is in speed. I've generated around 50k images with gpt-image-2 via api, the the average latency has held at around 104s.
raincole 13 hours ago
I'm confused. Isn't diffui using its own model?
jjcm 13 hours ago
It's both. I have several models loaded into diffui. Which one each prompt uses is determined based on user preference over time. Whichever image is currently at the top of any image node stack marks a win for the model that generated it, I assign each model an ELO score based on that, and I bias the chance each model is selected based on their ELO score. Right now gpt-image-2 is better than my own model, and it services around ~96% of the requests in diffui.
I'll also be adding in microsoft's mai-image-2.6 soon, but I need to update my SOC2 to add MS as a provider before I turn that on for other users. The full list of models in rotation is here: https://image.non.io/d53a9760-8b74-4386-b032-d59da2cd5319.we...
raincole 13 hours ago
Oh, you're the dev of diffui? It's completely off-topic, but I've notice that RMB -> Download image will download an .png but it's actually a .webp and it can cause issues (e.g. file explorer doesn't show thumbnail correctly).
jjcm 13 hours ago
Indeed I am! Also nice catch - should have a fix up in the next hour. Hit me up with any other reqs - [email protected]
Edit: confirmed that the download should be fixed now - should be properly a png now.
jjcm 13 hours ago
Some UI tests with it:
Warcraft 3 style agentic dev interface: https://image.non.io/cd9ea5cd-8ed7-44e0-ad3f-480ff0e51875.we...
Overall it used the reference images I gave it a bit better than gpt-image-2. I noticed 2 had issues getting the blue button just right. 2.5 nailed it.
A "John Politics" meme site: https://image.non.io/d2922164-fa96-4d07-a141-2febadb02939.we...
Did very well modifying the pose while keeping the appearance of Glenn Powell. gpt-image-2 had a lot of the "fried" look for some of his skin in prior designs I did for johnpolitics.com
A cyberpunk inspired ramen website: https://image.non.io/8d5d8f10-0f0f-4d91-b5ea-33af7538b150.we...
Dark mode sites surfaced the fried look quite a bit in prior models, but this definitely looks better on that front. One thing that looks perhaps worse though is the microglyphs - note the teal lines to the bottom right of the ramen, they're kinda blurry / not straight.
Overall fixed some of the main issues / gripes I had with gpt-image-2
vlyan 9 hours ago
>Warcraft 3 style agentic dev interface
I can forgive the randumb placement of chains but not that sovlless icon of a person from the wow era. wc3 era UI would've used a character portrait.
tyrust 5 hours ago
The WC3 one is fun. Definitely feels close to what I remember.
davidwritesbugs 3 hours ago
Love the John Politics page, utterly slick completely bland and phoney. Assume it’s a meme i missed, love it.
Hoftheater 4 hours ago
This is a nice showcase of what it can do but so little of it seems to be actually useful or rather odd choices. Some examples were already mentioned, but also the Gdocs presentation: apart from the terrible layout, why would one use fake photos of the sun in a "science" talk when there is an abundance of real high-res photos available? For educational purposes these are even free to use.
meerita 14 hours ago
I've really enjoyed using AI to generate images. For example, Long time ago, I read an amazing five-book saga called Riverworld, and I used AI to recreate many scenes, places, and ideas from the story. Seeing the books come to life through hundreds of images was a great experience. Definitely one of the coolest things to enjoy in 2026. Try it with your favorite books.
Starlevel004 14 hours ago
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RobinL 14 hours ago
I wish I could do it better. There seems to be a lot of variability. This episode of radiolab on the topic is fascinating: https://radiolab.org/podcast/aphantasia/transcript?utm_sourc...
andai 14 hours ago
The apple scale:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HelloInternet/comments/f0wuej/are_y...
alstonite 14 hours ago
Wow I haven’t thought about HI in years!
fsloth 14 hours ago
Not all people can!
SirMaster 13 hours ago
I feel like the reason I dislike reading or find reading boring is because I can't. But it's just a theory. Meanwhile I absolutely love movies.
dinfinity 13 hours ago
This is quite common if you have full on aphantasia.
I have a friend who only reads fiction for which he's seen the accompanying show first because he otherwise has no visual reference for the characters and environments.
Semaphor 3 hours ago
> This is quite common if you have full on aphantasia.
Is it? I’ve never really researched common aphantasia behavior, but I’ve seen many mentions of aphantasia in fantasy/scifi subreddits where those of us with it still love reading. I can imagine (heh) it, but I wonder if there’s some kind of data regarding it?
Semaphor 3 hours ago
FWIW, there’s a famous(-ish) fantasy author with aphantasia (Mark Lawrence), and I also have aphantasia, yet I absolutely love reading and if I would have to choose only one entertainment for the rest of my live, it’d be reading.
But I can’t stand elaborate descriptions (it’s almost always landscapes, rarely do authors feel the need to describe anything in as excruciating details as landscapes), which might be related to those descriptions not building up to some kind of image in my head.
meerita 12 hours ago
I did it as well. But it was fun to imagine it through another type of eyes.
yawnr 14 hours ago
One man's treasure is another man's trash
squidbeak 14 hours ago
One man's cliche is another man's hacker news comment
ActionHank 14 hours ago
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throwup238 14 hours ago
We’ve outsourced everything else.
Escapado 13 hours ago
I just finished the 2nd book of the Stormlight Chronicles by Brandon Sanderson. Sadly I have had aphantasia all my life and therefore I can not visually imagine things - I do have a very loud inner monologue though and can imagine the voices of the characters.
I just tried out the new version of ChatGPT to generate images for the main characters in a concept art style and for me it makes the story come to life a bit more.
I also run a Pathfinder Campaign every other week and have found great pleasure visualizing scenes in this way for myself. Sometimes I share them with the players and so far the feedback on that has been very positive.
I wish I could picture things in my mind but at least now I have something that can help me with my handicap!
meerita 11 hours ago
Outsourcing re-imagination.
TiredOfLife 11 hours ago
About 300 million people literally can't imagine.
hirvi74 9 hours ago
Why is that such a bad thing? Imagination is not truly useful for anything without skills to complement it, at least not in my experience.
ta8903 4 hours ago
>Imagination is not truly useful for anything without skills to complement it
techbro final boss
binkHN 8 hours ago
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etdznots 2 hours ago
If it’s a good film then those are works of art and interpretation in themselves, but I suspect you have something which is more the product of a mechanical bureaucracy in mind than works of art: maybe like a production of Harry Potter or The Hunger Games.
If those are the kinds of books you have in mind I can see why you get confused/frustrated by how others feel about slop, since you’ve been shoulder deep in it for your whole life!
the-mitr 8 hours ago
Then reading a book is outsourcing imagination or enjoying it's illustrations by someone else, as you rely on the others for imagining stories
AyanamiKaine 15 hours ago
Omg, I love how the first examples just show how easy you can fake things. Fake being at a party with your friends. Didn't make your bed, no problem, just fake it.
The sad part is my mother would love "remixing" my old child photos of me.
echelon 14 hours ago
This is an artificial modern world problem.
For thousands of years people have told embellished stories, and humanity has thrived upon it. Tall tales, fish stories. Heck, that's still the average person's experience unless they've really worked their critical thinking muscles.
Today's working adults are used to the short thirty-year "safe space" of smartphones and internet. We grew up in a temporary meta stability where "truth" was "recorded" and could be "relied upon", and now that the fundamentals are shifting, we're complaining that the physical world is amenable to storytelling and imagination once again.
Cry me a river. This is awesome and is a direct consequence of everything I ever wanted the future to be: magical creative superpowers. I wanted to graduate into the world that is emerging now rather than spend the first third of my career in incrementalism and slow progress.
2008 - 2020 sucked. What a total lull. AI is healing these things and putting us back on track for the jet pack future we grew up dreaming about. It's taking us back to a creative world without shitty platforms controlling what we say and do, and without a ceiling on what we can accomplish.
It feels like every day we're unwrapping a new present or several. Not small things, but reality-shattering things that fill me with inspiration to build and explore. It's so much fun.
RobRivera 14 hours ago
[Cry me a River]
No thank you
sbarre 13 hours ago
Good, because we need that river to make AI images!
AyanamiKaine 14 hours ago
To tell a story, to even exaggerate one is something completely different from providing "prove" it did really happen exactly the way it was told.
There are many many people that will take an image as an undeniable fact of the real world. While before you could fake(photoshop) things it took more time then 30 seconds.
I wouldnt regulate these aspects, because I believe pandoras box is already wide open. Regulating anything wouldn't change much.
hirvi74 9 hours ago
Pandora's box is already wide open? The lid was blown off the hinges long before AI. There were people eating Tide Pods in the 2010s. People were drinking bleach and taking Ivermectin to kill a virus about five years ago.
AI, in some ways, might be our only saving grace at this point. It sure as Hell cannot cause people to do much worse.
api 9 hours ago
AI makes it easier to fact check. It’s not perfect but it’s better than nothing.
echelon 6 hours ago
This is the right perspective.
While {AI, the Internet, Smartphones} can cause harm, {AI, the Internet, Smartphones} are vastly more beneficial to society than not.
onion2k 14 hours ago
Didn't make your bed, no problem, just fake it.
Except you need to have taken a photo of the unmade bed, uploaded it to ChatGPT, prompted for the 'fake made bed' version, and downloaded the image.
Surely it's less effort to just make the bed?
jampekka 14 hours ago
Not in the past I guess?
emil-lp 13 hours ago
> Surely it's less effort to just make the bed?
It's not about the bed.
People areaddicted to generating now.
Slopoholics the whole bunch of them.
Mashimo 2 hours ago
You can take the photo, inside the chatgpt app and then talk to it without much effort. Perfect for a lazy teenager .
72deluxe 23 minutes ago
It would use far less energy to make the bed too, and help preserve Earth's future by avoiding needlessly expending energy.
rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 14 hours ago
>The sad part is my mother would love "remixing" my old child photos of me.
How is that sad? Why is your mothers joy sad?
breezybottom 14 hours ago
Memory already declines with age. AI slop threatens to warp those memories further.
AyanamiKaine 14 hours ago
Because she will pounder in old memories that never existed in the first place. Instead of cherrying the current times. Past moments of long gone time will be elongated beyond their actual existence.
Imagine a time where a small moment is actually a smaller amount experienced then the remixed one. At one point you will have more memories of fake events, and more emotional beats for said fake events than real ones.
AI videos showing you a second life if you just had chosen a different path.
People will be depressed from it.
m_fayer 14 hours ago
There’s a wonderful Ted Chiang short story called “Anxiety is The Dizziness Of Freedom” that explores how people become enmeshed and addicted to alternate versions of how their life could have gone. It’s reminiscent of what you’re describing.
ragequittah 3 hours ago
I made an AI video of a picture of me when I was about 2. Had a huge smile on my face in the photo so as a lark I made a 5 second video of me laughing. The look in my mom's eyes when I showed her and the way she grabbed the phone from me to look closer was such a good moment.
It's not an alternate reality. I was laughing at the time almost certainly. New ways of seeing old memories really needn't be depressing at all. It's so strange how so many people seem to only see the bad in a technology that can be used in countless different ways.
handbanana_ 14 hours ago
Why do you assume her joy is the sad part?
m_fayer 14 hours ago
Because elderly people who never had a connection to tech or sci-fi will have no feel for, and therefore no resistance to the kind of trickery that seems fun but is ultimately corrosive. Cheerfully meddling with the artifacts of memory at that life stage is corrosive.
72deluxe 20 minutes ago
Because the mother's joy should hinge on the actual photo of the actual event of the actual person, not a fictional imaginary event or fake childhood of their child. The experience of being human should be tethered to reality.
bakhlawa 14 hours ago
Is that 5 pillows on the original (messy) bed down to 4 pillows in the clean version?
cobolcomesback 14 hours ago
Seriously, are these really the best examples they could come up with?
What is the point of having a fake picture of your dog in a costume? What’s the point of having a fake picture about being at a party?
The only use case I can think of for this is for someone who likes to make up stories and lie about what they’ve done. Is that really the target market?
AyanamiKaine 14 hours ago
That was exactly my first reaction!
Mark where you at the party today? Yes of course look at these pictures I took (╥﹏╥)
embedding-shape 13 hours ago
> The only use case I can think of for this is for someone who likes to make up stories and lie about what they’ve done. Is that really the target market?
As far as I can tell, the biggest uses of these sort of models is to pump out lots of content on multimedia-based social media, so yeah, it's basically for the sort of person who doesn't shy away from exaggerating, omitting or outright lying in order to get more views.
xp84 13 hours ago
Trying to be as least cynical as possible, imagine if you were a party with 3 or more people, and you really wanted a nice pic like that to commemorate the night, but never got to take one all together because someone left early, and you were in the bathroom when they announced their departure.
Yes, it's a major first-world problem to not get a photo, but to the right person, it could mean a lot to them to "fix" the photo they took with A and B to add C to their 'rightful place.'
bryceacc 11 hours ago
and then as you look back at that wonderful night you "remember" with all your friends, you will reinforce a false picture and reality strays further
chorkpop 11 hours ago
But still what's the point? To look back on false memories that didn't happen?
pibaker 5 hours ago
What's the point of having a photo like that?
Is spending time with your friends not enough in 2026? Do we must provide photographic evidence of all the fun you have been having or it did not happen?
madaxe_again 4 hours ago
Did you miss the last 15 years of social media?
So many people I just stopped spending time with altogether as instead of being present they’d be posing for their 90th instagram shot by 10am - and then of course they want you to pose, too.
So no. Spending time with your friends is not enough in 2026. I’m not even convinced people have friends now - just colleagues and mutual parasites.
72deluxe 24 minutes ago
I think it depends on who your friends are, and/or culture.
I was in France the other month and walking down to the river in Saumur, I noticed an area serving drinks (out of an old converted bus) with lights and suchlike (opposite the castle on the hill), with a small acoustic band. Nobody (and I mean nobody) had their phone out. The couple of hours I spent there, nobody was observable taking selfies. The age range was from young to old.
I was shocked. It was very different from the UK. Refreshingly so.
keiferski 2 hours ago
This is such a contrived imaginary situation that is pretty divorced from reality. No one wants a fake AI photo to commemorate a real event.
numlock86 14 hours ago
> Omg, I love how the first examples just show how easy you can fake things. Fake being at a party with your friends. Didn't make your bed, no problem, just fake it.
Well, that's like the entire point of social media anyway, isn't it? People there will _love_ this. Ugh ...
eclipticplane 13 hours ago
My secret hope is that this kills the influencer industry and gets things back to just ads. Just the ads happen to be fake people, instead of real people pretending to be ads.
jodacola 14 hours ago
I’m less concerned about faking being at a party with friends and more with the 2006 timestamp on said photo!
Can you imagine finding a stack of photos in the basement with timestamps of the Before AI times and wondering whether they are real or just got swapped with generated and printed fakes? Scary!
It’s cool, folks… nothing bad is going to happen. Right? Right?!
AyanamiKaine 14 hours ago
True, I didn't thought about that. Just imagine the scale of "historic" images that will be created over the next 100 years.
madaxe_again 4 hours ago
There won’t be a next 100 years.
andai 14 hours ago
Yeah, the "3 lonely selfies -> fake 2006 party photo" is the most 2020s thing I've ever seen in my life.
torginus 11 hours ago
And the fan favourite 'Imagine the apartment we're trying to sell doesn't look like a superfund site'
hashstring 10 hours ago
Apple Intelligence received the same criticism when they launched Siri AI. Seems like the faking it, is a common product UC.
pelzatessa 15 hours ago
The "composite party photo", while impressive, shows that still the miniscule details are being lost, like the teeth structure of the guy in the middle or the fact that the guy on the left is holding the cup with three fingers. Wondering why they chose this edit for the showcase.
nzach 14 hours ago
And don't forget the 'Thing' from Addams Family in the shoulder of the guy on the left.
pllbnk 14 hours ago
The guy on the left in that same photo only has three fingers (and a thumb, I suppose). I thought image generation has already outlived that.
Edit: I feel stupid I didn't see the original OP already mentioning three finger issue. I'll just leave it here.
headz 14 hours ago
> Wondering why they chose this edit for the showcase.
They probably didn't care to check those images in detail.
polytely 14 hours ago
I'm guessing if you work on these images the whole day you start to lose the ability to judge image quality. like your brain becomes slopified
vunderba 14 hours ago
The OpenAI PR/doc team seem to have a history of this kind of attention lapse - their 4-panel comic strip using gpt-image-2 was an absolute mess too.
kfarr 14 hours ago
I've also found the OpenAI image models to lose fine detail on image edits compared to Nano Banana or Flux models which faithfully retain input source image geometry and details. I was hoping this might be different but it sounds similar to previous OpenAI image models where something is lost in translation during image editing.
vunderba 13 hours ago
I know the API (assuming you're using it) lets you set the output size of the edited images - I haven't done a huge amount of testing with > 1mp, so I'd be curious if this might mitigate some of that.
https://developers.openai.com/api/reference/python/resources...
timbaboon 14 hours ago
Haha yes, I immediately saw the fingers and was surprised 'cos I thought that was something they had "solved" by now
andai 14 hours ago
Maybe it's like how spammers intentionally make their emails more obvious, because they have a very specific target audience.
hmstx 14 hours ago
Exactly this. "All this progress and they're back to miscounted fingers again?!"
nilsherzig 14 hours ago
Dogs shadow didn't change
fsloth 14 hours ago
The dog is even more on the nose. The shadow shape is almost the same despite the dog getting quite a lot of volume around it's original body parts.
nojs 7 hours ago
The guy’s arm is also extremely long.
ivraatiems 3 hours ago
There's maybe something cool at the core of this - help you ideate by seeing things in images! - but it's lost in all the other awful ways this gets used. More fake menus with food that looks nothing like the real thing. More fake book covers displacing real artists.
I can admire and enjoy the work of coding agents, which mostly just help solve problems and save me time. I can appreciate that there are creative uses for agents with text, that they could save people time, and that the environmental and safety concerns potentially have solutions.
I just can't see my way to appreciating these art agents, or any use of AI as a replacement for a human creative process. It's not because their output is bad, anymore (though sometimes it still isn't great). It's because it is bereft.
Even if I could, nobody in my life would be okay with my using them alongside my actual creative work. In fact, they'd be pretty upset if I did. And if I found out they'd been sharing stories with me written by AI, I'd be mad, too.
I'd rather just see the prompts.
King-Aaron 2 hours ago
AI art is making me realise that through my whole artistic career, the reason it's so hard to convince people that they need good design is because no one really appreciates good art and design other than people who have studied art and design.
iamacyborg an hour ago
It’s okay to make nice things for a small group of people, the challenge, obviously, is finding those people and exposing them to your work.
qbit42 an hour ago
And getting paid…
etdznots 2 hours ago
As a software user, I feel just as frustrated and disappointed when I look at a projects website, code, and commit history and it’s slop, why in the world would I use this garbage when I can just prompt my model to make my own?
Realize the people using this to make slop menus and book covers feel the same way, wow this is useful and saves me so much time/money!
King-Aaron 2 hours ago
Notice that not a single business on earth so far is passing those time and money savings on however.
weird-eye-issue 32 minutes ago
These AI tools primarily benefit single person businesses and they are creating a race to the bottom so that's not entirely true
user43928 an hour ago
I am building an app and I need illustrations. Hiring someone is out of the question.
Previously, I would either not have illustrations or try to fit a stock image to my use case.
Now I can just generate illustrations that fit my use case well, and it takes very little effort.
Mine is just one out of thousands of conceivable use cases for image generation and editing. I appreciate that this capability is now available to everyone.
Razengan an hour ago
I'm a solo coder. I love coding. Never used (or trusted) AI to generate code, only to review.
But good art and especially animation, beyond basic UI and logos, is a full-time commitment that requires giving up coding while you're working on the visuals (yes many great solo devs did their own art, but I prefer using the extra time on other shit, like making music and getting on with life)
Getting a good meat-based artist to hop on my Awesome Game Idea #458235 is easier if I can show them a running gameplay example, so they can see what the actual game will be like.
Up until recently I was just using free third-party asset packs like Kenney's: https://kenney.nl/assets/1-bit-pack
That works well but carries a risk of "painting yourself into a corner"; the longer you test a game in a particular art style (or music) the more you subconsciously tend to develop the rest of the game around that style! At least for me
AI-generated PLACEHOLDER art lets me iterate on a game closer to how I envision the final product to look like, right from Day 1.
I'd still hire/kidnap an actual artist before publishing.
minimaxir 14 hours ago
A big wtf at the LM Arena scores: https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image
gpt-image-2.5-sunburst: 1421
gpt-image-2.5-flare: 1399
gpt-image-2 (medium): 1381
mai-image-2.6: 1331
Even with LM Arena being flawed, this is significant. I was planning to do a writeup on the original gpt-image-2 as it crushed every complex image comprehension benchmark I had...I'm glad I procrastinated since ChatGPT Images 2.5 seems like an even better starting point to test out what these models can actually do nowadays.
Many people still think AI images output the wrong number of fingers on a regular basis. (EDIT: this was an ironic comment to make in hindsight and I own it)
yoz-y 14 hours ago
> Many people still think AI images output the wrong number of fingers on a regular basis.
Last time I used a frontier image model it made me a seal with three hands so…
yawn 14 hours ago
> Many people still think AI images output the wrong number of fingers on a regular basis.
There's literally an image of a dude with 3 fingers in the Composite Party Photo.
minimaxir 14 hours ago
So this is a valid point (and I admit I eat crow on my earlier statement), but not for that reason. In that photo, there are three fingers in front of the cup, but you would not expect 5 fingers because the way humans hold cups, the thumb will be occluded by the cup itself. That said, I don't think there is a way to hold a cup with both thumb and index occluded, so the correct number of fingers would be 4 in that case.
addandsubtract 12 hours ago
If you zoom in, the index finger is just obscured by the middle finger. You can also see the knuckle, so it's not incorrect, just an awkward way to hold a cup.
handbanana_ 14 hours ago
I mean there's literally one of their example images with hands with the wrong number of fingers.
Nition 12 hours ago
Did anyone else notice that all the use cases they show here are "use ChatGPT Images to imagine all the things you'd like to have, but don't"? For some, they then show the thing being done, since just imagining it is a bit sad. But ChatGPT Images can't help you with that part. At best, it's providing creative inspiration - but that's often the most rewarding part of the process for a human... None of the examples show things where you just need an image directly, e.g. product labels, signage, sprites, textures, images for websites etc. I guess aspirational stuff sells?
In order, there's:
- Imagine you had better decorations for your fish.
- Imagine you had a tattoo of your pet.
- Imagine you had a unique candle holder.
- Imagine you had a worse haircut.
- Imagine your flowers were arranged.
- Imagine your child had a suit.
- Imagine your dog had a costume.
- Imagine you owned a scanner.
- Imagine you could hang out with friends.
- Imagine your bed was made.
abound 11 hours ago
I think you've picked the most cynical interpretation for each one. More charitably, you could say:
- Ideate on things you can build for your fish tank
- Iterate quickly on ideas for a tattoo
- Get inspiration for a new metalworking (or 3D printing?) project
- Get a sense for what a new haircut might look like, before you commit
- Iterate on arrangements for a bouquet of flowers
- Do silly things with childhood photos
- Do silly things with pet photos
- Clean up low-res, damaged, or weirdly formatted photos
- Do some creative storytelling with your long-distance friends
- Okay yeah fine they should just make the damn bed, but I can imagine small tweaks being useful for staging a home (easy to abuse though)
Nition 10 hours ago
This is fair criticism, I was being pretty harsh.
razorbeamz 3 hours ago
> None of the examples show things where you just need an image directly, e.g. product labels, signage, sprites, textures, images for websites etc.
I think this is because recently there has been extreme backlash to this sort of thing.
Mashimo 2 hours ago
If someone shows me a picture of a haircut, or a dress and asked me if it would look good on them, I can't imagine it. My mind does not work like that. I just can't visually see it.
72deluxe 18 minutes ago
At least it saves them asking you now, I guess?
There's no way to win in that situation anyway - if you said "yes I think it'd look great!" and then they went and got their hair cut to match your suggestion but didn't like it, is it your fault for saying "yes"?
kouteiheika an hour ago
> Did anyone else notice that all the use cases they show here are "use ChatGPT Images to imagine all the things you'd like to have, but don't"?
What else could they highlight? The other major use case for these models for normal people (generating NSFW images) is explicitly blocked by them.
tyjen 14 hours ago
The Facebook Marketplace experience for used items has depreciated considerably with the widespread adoption of LLMs. Between placing attractive models in photos to help sell items to "improving" the visual condition of items that completely misrepresent the real condition of the item, it's becoming a trickier landscape to navigate to find what you're looking for.
Auracle 4 hours ago
I just saw a Twitter thread of someone calling out realtors with absolutely egregious editing examples. Think pools and landscaping being added to backyards, a background being changed to a mountainous region, and furniture being “staged” in an attic space that definitely couldn’t fit that furniture.
A realtor in the comments said they legally need to also post the same images but unedited, but I’m sure when you’re doing this the first 50 are the edited ones and the last 50 are the unedited. How many people make it to the unedited?
johnnyApplePRNG 3 hours ago
This is going to get regulated pretty quick.
vgalin 14 hours ago
The introductory video is a bit... daring. Generating tattoos that clearly look AI-generated is not one of the use-cases I'd try to sell.
VladVladikoff 14 hours ago
It hit me just now that people might actually getting tattooed with AI slop. That’s… depressing
dude250711 13 hours ago
Think on the bright side, it will be easier to judge them based on how they look, possibly saving you time and effort.
Auracle 4 hours ago
I mean, it would probably be better than many tattoo artist’s art. At the very least it’s not a bad way to see how something would look on you before you permanently do it.
earthnail 2 hours ago
Look at the kid in a costume. The shoulders of ChatGPT’s output are just wrong. Sure, the kid looks prettier, stronger with a wider upper body, closer to society’s ideal of a child. But it’s not him. If you put that child in a suit, he’d still have a smaller upper body and the arms wouldn’t fill out the suit as nicely as the child in the AI image does.
It’s just not the same child.
I know we’re gonna get there eventually, but still, seeing as this is their first demo image on the page I just can’t help but scream inside “HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THIS?”
It really makes me question whether the people building, or at least the people marketing this, actually understand their product. I love image generation for all kinds of use cases, but I find that particular example creepy.
Sivart13 14 hours ago
Great idea, get an AI art tattoo so you can always be reminded how AI art looked in 2026.
kridsdale1 3 hours ago
Lots of people have tattoos of what cutting edge video game graphics looked like in 1992.
bufbupa 14 hours ago
Still can't make sprite sheets :(
RobinL 14 hours ago
Interesting. I'm surprised they haven't prioritised/deliberately trained for this more because of how useful it is to ask codex to generate some images/assets/sprites when building sill games. It would dramatically enhance how polished it's games were.
That said for single images the old model was already okayish for prototypes
vunderba 14 hours ago
You can get semi-decent sprite work out of GenAI models, but you still have to put in some manual work (scale normalization, palette reduction, grid alignments, etc). It's definitely not "out-of-the-box" yet.
gpt5 14 hours ago
Really nice share. I bet you could automate the manual work with today's models
vunderba 13 hours ago
Yeah, I think you’re right. I think the hardest part would honestly be maintaining some level of consistency as your project grows its number of assets - otherwise there's no sense of a common stylistic theme.
The agentic tooling in some of the latest models is getting pretty crazy too - somebody on Reddit recently shared an example of using GPT-6 Astra to generate sprites with Aseprite, an open-source, popular pixel art editor and it worked shockingly well.
itomato 14 hours ago
No but it can write a tool that can.
hirvi74 9 hours ago
Go on... I'm listening.
itomato 8 hours ago
I've been struggling with this for a few years for Yoto LED icons. Design rules didn't cut it, but a pymagick workflow did, more or less.
I have abandoned the work I was doing, but if you provide the image constraints along with some examples and descriptions of those examples using the terminology of your constraints, you should get something iterable.
ramesh31 14 hours ago
>"Still can't make sprite sheets :("
The key is making them one frame at a time, rather than asking for the whole sheet. Adherence frame-to-frame with a reference image is really good, so just prompt with the previous + direction. I finally got Nano Banana to make fairly decent fluid animations that way.
pigpop 13 hours ago
It's better to use a specialized model for that https://retrodiffusion.ai
emadabdulrahim 12 hours ago
Shameless plug, but I built an image generation app with tools for sprite sheet and cutting out the sprites automatically.
Added support for GPT 2.5
gottagocode 15 hours ago
Composite party photo...this is going to revolutionize tinder profiles.
Jonovono 14 hours ago
Will be updating my dating app photo generator asap: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pull-ai-dating-app-photos/id67...
TomGarden 14 hours ago
The societal hurt coming out of public releases of image/video generation models must surely outweight the gain. That said, this is super impressive.
tezza 11 hours ago
I've done a side by side comparison of the two new models across all quality levels. Versus all the previous models
https://generative-ai.review/2026/09/rush-openai-image-gen-2...
right, off to bed now
geooff_ 13 hours ago
Still far too expensive.
At this point, I'm much more interested in seeing releases for models chasing down prices on "good enough" to unlock new use-cases than I am SOTA.
I've been using Grok Imagine V1 in prod for months now as its quality for my use-case is already more than enough.
somenameforme 15 minutes ago
Should probably mention this as a root comment, but various local image gen models like fooocus [1] run on basically any remotely modern hardware, have phenomenal output quality, and cost basically nothing.
I think companies trying to sell image gen at this point are just banking on ignorance.
plastic041 10 hours ago
I can't stop thinking that these use cases aren't real, and OpenAI is just gaslighting people. Humans don't need AI for these trivial things.
This ad feels like a science fiction, where humans can't do anything without the help of their AI assistants.
- Design a tattoo of my cat
- What hairstyle should I have
- Arrange these flowers
What next? Who should I date? Open the door?
hspeiser 14 hours ago
the clothing examples are super odd because its not actually useable. the clothes will not look like that on you, it just fits them to your body.
lefty2 13 hours ago
Even GPT Images 2.0 was already the best image generator that I have tried, however it has one massive disadvantage: draconian censorship. Even rendering a gun in a scene will get flagged as "violent" and I need to create a battle scene... there's no way to do that with the censorship the way it is
WarmWash 13 hours ago
Does it still have that distinct off-white shading of previous models though?
I'm 99% sure that that is the main tell AI sniffers rely on.
throwaway314155 12 hours ago
> that distinct off-white shading
Let's see Paul Allen's card.
furyofantares 14 hours ago
allllll the way at the bottom
> Pricing and availability
> Images 2.5 is rolling out today to ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex users across all tiers on desktop, mobile, and web.
> GPT‑Image‑2.5 Sunburst and GPT‑Image‑2.5 Flare are available in the API. See pricing details here.
and the link to the pricing details is a page where i am either too dumb to find the pricing details, or they don't exist
raincole 14 hours ago
furyofantares 13 hours ago
Looks like they updated the link to that page now too. Thanks.
Same price as image-2, and I'm guessing it's not more tokens (given the speedup).
jve 2 hours ago
Can someone recommend a correct way for interior design ideas?
Yesterday tried GPT-6-Astra Light to have a kitchen remodel... well it did understand 2D space, an improvement when tried on GPT-5.6-Sol
But the image representation was way off and I was not satisfied... misplaced the window, drew a wall which was not on 2D image, cabinet size issues. Eh.
__MatrixMan__ 14 hours ago
> Arrange these flowers
What kind of person cares enough to buy flowers for an arrangement, but is uninterested in arranging them? What's next, will we buy music for our AI's to listen to? Food for them to eat?
There's a lot of drudgery that can be automated away, but this seems to be focused on automating the fun parts away.
72deluxe 17 minutes ago
I believe the next step will be from Douglas Adam's "Dirk Gently" book where an electric monk exists to believe things for you, to save you the effort and "bother" of having to have religious belief.
It's very sad.
bearjaws 15 hours ago
Surprised to see no acknowledgement of how "AI Menu Slop" has become deeply associated with ChatGPT.
Everywhere I go now I see places that blatantly used ChatGPT for their menus or posters and they all look the same.
It feels almost existential to the service, I know its a bit of survivor bias but so many images you can tell immediately are ChatGPT vs other image providers, and I feel many people are sick of them.
mickeyp 15 hours ago
It's not like a lot of these small-time outfits used their own photography to begin with.
They'd pick a kebab from a menu of professionally made kebab pictures the printer has in stock. Or worse, they'd take pics of their own plated food with a dead-centre point flash in a dark cupboard or something and you end up with awful-looking food, no matter how good.
core_dumped 14 hours ago
It's still more honest than generating virtual kebab.
infecto 14 hours ago
Is it though? I don’t find using stock art to be any better myself.
breezybottom 14 hours ago
Stock art food doesn't usually look unappetizing and bizarre.
infecto 14 hours ago
Sounds like a great self-selection problem.
shagie 14 hours ago
I'm not sure if I'm working with ChatGPT Images 2.5 or 2.0 here...
The original photo I took was at https://www.reddit.com/r/Tovala/comments/1pfuwrb/meatloaf_pa... - it's a cheeseburger meatloaf with potato wedges taken with a phone camera. And I was going for a consistent documentation approach for the photograph, not trying for menu proper.
https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa05d33-3e6c-83ea-9e32-f1371c1ad6... ( https://imgur.com/a/fPB5VKP for just the image)
I suspect that someone doing a menu could take a properly plated meal from the kitchen (rather than me photographing on top of my oven) and have it get redone for a good image for a menu without fundamentally changing what is being served.
ieie3366 14 hours ago
What if I told you.. the average person LIKES ai slop images and prefers them to "regular" ones.
The same way the average person prefers McDonalds food to healthy food
sebzim4500 14 hours ago
I think quite a lot of people can distinguish between AI and real (maybe 30%?) but almost no one is worried about distinguishing between ChatGPT and other image generators
masswerk 14 hours ago
It's the great desemantification machine: want to look, read, sound, feel just like the median, without personal traits or individual expression? This is for you! (And people used to talk about communism and everything being same. Well, tech-broism actually achieved this.)