Restaurants are increasingly using AI image generators to create advertising visuals for menu items, but the results are drawing criticism online for looking unnatural or unappealing. Examples cited include distorted renderings of dishes like chicken wings that bear little resemblance to real food.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-24
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Images 2.5, which includes a new Sketch feature allowing users to draw a rough doodle inside ChatGPT and have it converted into a polished image based on typed instructions. Users can invoke the tool by typing @Sketch, then annotate specific parts of the generated image with comments to request targeted edits, such as changing eye color. OpenAI says the update also improves lighting and texture quality, strengthens multi-turn editing consistency, and cuts image generation latency by up to 50% compared to the previous version.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-08