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Re: ChatGPT Images 2.0

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Post by botanrice »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #514
simonw wrote: post #37

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I just got a much better version using this command instead, which uses the maximum image size according to https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples... OPENAI_API_KEY="$(llm keys get openai)" \ uv run 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonw/tools/refs/heads/main/python/openai_image.py' \ -m gpt-image-2 \ "Do a where's Waldo style image but it's where is the raccoon holding a ham radio" \ --quali…

Cost me https://elsrc.com/elsrc/waldo/wojak.jpg And this medium quality, high resolution https://elsrc.com/elsrc/waldo/10_wojaks.jpg was 13cents p.s. aaaand that's soft launch my SaaS above, you can replace wojak.jpg with anything you want and it will paint that. It's basically appending to prompt defined by elsrc's dashboard. Hopefully a more sane way to manage genai content. Be gentle to my server, hn!

are you using the same prompt the above commenter used? I've been toying around with increasingly ridiculous prompts and it works surprisingly well. It's the new ChatGPT image gen or Nano Banana?

It's pretty good tbh, even with absurd prompts

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.0

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Post by inquirerGeneral »

lionkor wrote: post #613

Every cent you spend on this, remember: The people who made this possible are not even getting a millionth of a cent for every billion USD made with it (they are getting nothing). Same with code; that code you spent years pouring over, fixing, etc. is now how these companies make so much money and get so much investment. It's like open source, except you get shafted.

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Re: ChatGPT Images 2.0

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Post by cozzyd »

FrozenSynapse wrote: post #703
r5109 wrote: post #651

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Rob Pike cares. In other places apart from HN there is more resistance. Perceived lack of resistance has multiple reasons: - Criticism of AI is discouraged or flagged on most industry owned platforms. - The loudest pro-AI software engineers work for companies that financially benefit from AI. - Many are silent because they fear reprisals. - Many software engineers lack agency and prefer to sit back and understand wha…

Maybe SWEs just can think better and see that there's nothing they can do, and to fight against this is useless. Artists still hope they can change this somehow, which is impossible, the people with money and datacenters want more money and don't really care about the people that are getting screwed over.

Just need to get AIs to purposely produce slop that has the trappings of quality to sabotage future AIs. Oh and write endless low quality PRs to all GitHub projects to build bad will.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.0

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

Cyan488 wrote: post #739
qnleigh wrote: post #607

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No this is what life looks like on the other side of the uncanny valley. The images don't look creepy because they look artificial or wrong. They're a reminder of a creepy new reality where our eyes can no longer tell us what's real.

We've definitely passed the point where discerning between real and AI images is impossible, even for a very detail-oriented eye.

It's not really a new problem though, as image forgery was a thing ages ago; if there weren't laws or measures taken against photoshopped images or instagram filters or faceapp things then, why would there be laws or measures taken against AI generated images now?

Granted, a nontrivial difference is that the barrier to entry is lower; photo editing is something that requires active effort and learning.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.0

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Post by botanrice »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #514
simonw wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just got a much better version using this command instead, which uses the maximum image size according to https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples... OPENAI_API_KEY="$(llm keys get openai)" \ uv run 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonw/tools/refs/heads/main/python/openai_image.py' \ -m gpt-image-2 \ "Do a where's Waldo style image but it's where is the raccoon holding a ham radio" \ --quali…

Cost me https://elsrc.com/elsrc/waldo/wojak.jpg And this medium quality, high resolution https://elsrc.com/elsrc/waldo/10_wojaks.jpg was 13cents p.s. aaaand that's soft launch my SaaS above, you can replace wojak.jpg with anything you want and it will paint that. It's basically appending to prompt defined by elsrc's dashboard. Hopefully a more sane way to manage genai content. Be gentle to my server, hn!

Some pretty funny but good examples:

https://elsrc.com/elsrc/waldo/10_schoolsofthought.jpg

https://elsrc.com/elsrc/waldo/10_anthropomorphizedcomputermo...

https://elsrc.com/elsrc/waldo/10_breathoffreshairsittingonad...

https://elsrc.com/elsrc/waldo/10_drizzydrakesdoingthedrakeme...

https://elsrc.com/elsrc/waldo/10_sashringingtrashsingingmash...

Ok i promise I'm done xD

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.0

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Post by ndriscoll »

wiseowise wrote: post #619
NewsaHackO wrote: post #421

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You are making a mistake a lot of people make when talking about genAI helping others do work. I get that to you it is very easy to do, but there are other groups of people that are not able to do it. What you are saying is like a hobbyist carpenter saying that making a bedside table would take him one weekend to do, so he doesn't think it is okay for tables to be made via assembly line instead of hiring a carpenter…

We’re taking about diagrams, all it takes is an experimentation and an iota of thought.

And yet coming up with insightful diagrams, even or especially if they are particularly simple, can be a point of fame (c.f. Feynman diagrams). Diagrams often need to "lie" in some sense, so it can actually be quite difficult to find ways to convey the point you want without misleading in some other important way. e.g. I had a geometry professor that would label the x-axis R^n and the y-axis R^m for a bunch of different pictures, which on its face makes no sense, but it conveyed what it needed to.

People tried to prove the parallel postulate redundant for thousands of years because they lacked the right picture to show why it's necessary.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.0

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Post by hersko »

hahahacorn wrote: post #60

One of the images in the blog ( https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/4d5dizAOajLfAXkGZ7... ) is a carbon copy of an image from an article posted Mar 27, 2026 with credits given to an individual: https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2026/03/cornell-accepts-5... Was this an oversight? Or did their new image generation model generate an image that was essentially a copy of an existing image?

Wow. How did you catch this??

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.0

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Post by mrWiz »

torginus wrote: post #795
tsimionescu wrote: post #774

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You're ignoring the biggest problem here: the concentration and extraction of wealth. The sum total of human artists were previously getting those billions of dollars, and now it's OpenAI (and Anthropic, and Google, and Microsoft, and maybe a handful of other players) getting it. Now, maybe it actually used to be hundreds of millions of dollars, and they've grown it to billions, and maybe they deserve some of that -…

I wonder what happened to actual artists though - they seem to be doing fine. I'm sure many people as consumers dabbled in AI art, and reached the conclusion after hours that what they made never looked quite right. Then they found they could commission an actual artist to draw what they wanted for tens or hundreds of dollars, which is a very good price for getting exactly what you want without having to waste your t…

How'd you conclude that artists are doing fine? That doesn't match my experience or observations at all.
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