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ChatGPT Images is a major upgrade over previous image tools.
Text rendering and recontextualization are now surprisingly accurate.
Edits still change details but avoid uncanny valley results.
It's been less than a week since OpenAI introduced GPT-5.2. Now, it's back with a major update to ChatGPT's image generation capability. It's almost like it has an army of robots writing software for it. Oh, wait. It does.
Also: I put GPT-5.2 through a 14-round test, and the AI model raised some serious questions
This update is overdue. A week or so ago, I reached out to OpenAI about their image generation tools. I wanted to ask about how I'd noticed that DALL-E wasn't being discussed much and that the overall ChatGPT image quality didn't appear to have kept pace with Google's Nano Banana Pro.
I was told that ChatGPT's image generator was "GPT-4o image generation in ChatGPT." GPT-4o was generations behind ChatGPT's mainstream LLM, GPT-5.2. But now, just a few days after releasing GPT-5.2, OpenAI has released that overdue major update to image generation.
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