I tried ChatGPT's new image generator, and it shattered my expectations
Published on: 2025-05-25 17:00:15
Prompt: Can you generate a realistic colorful image of dog wearing a suit on the street in 16:9 ratio Screenshot by Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET
OpenAI may have kicked off the text-to-image generation craze with its DALL-E model, but since those earlier glory days, the AI company's offering has been lapped by much more capable image models. As a result, when OpenAI released its latest and greatest GPT-4o image generation model, I was skeptical. After testing it, I have changed my mind entirely.
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When DALL-E first launched, it lived on its standalone website; since then, it has moved to ChatGPT. The move came with many benefits, including being able to ask the AI chatbot for an image you want in the same interface where you're already chatting about something else, thereby eliminating the need for constant context switching.
With the release of GPT-4o image generation, OpenAI kept this convenient format, switching the default image generator from DALL-E to GPT-4o for paid subs
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