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Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by vunderba » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 7:14 PM UTC

pelzatessa wrote: post #6

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.

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.

https://mordenstar.com/blog/gen-failures

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by recitedropper » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 7:14 PM UTC

vlyan wrote: post #48

recitedropper wrote: post #38

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The sheer waste that accompanies image and video genAI is actually terrifying. I challenge OpenAI to put a "your carbon footprint" field next to each generation. If you have nothing to hide, more information is surely better, right?

would you like a carbon receipt for your video gaems, netflix, and reddit sessions?

Someone needs to name this fallacy. The existence of existing harmful norms does not, ex ante, justify introducing additional harmful norms. I propose naming it the "GenAI Defender Fallacy".

Separately--yes, I would love carbon receipts for everything. Such a system would be fascinating and do real good in this world.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by minimaxir » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 7:14 PM UTC

iwjej wrote: post #62

simianwords wrote: post #50

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Its a simple way to feel superior - to sneer at normal people having fun and using technology.

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It's poor Poster's Bushido to post like that on a throwaway account.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by ndarray » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 7:14 PM UTC

vlyan wrote: post #48

recitedropper wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sheer waste that accompanies image and video genAI is actually terrifying. I challenge OpenAI to put a "your carbon footprint" field next to each generation. If you have nothing to hide, more information is surely better, right?

would you like a carbon receipt for your video gaems, netflix, and reddit sessions?

even the whataboutism is slop

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by uludag » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 7:15 PM UTC

vlyan wrote: post #48

recitedropper wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sheer waste that accompanies image and video genAI is actually terrifying. I challenge OpenAI to put a "your carbon footprint" field next to each generation. If you have nothing to hide, more information is surely better, right?

would you like a carbon receipt for your video gaems, netflix, and reddit sessions?

If said game, video, or social media site used 1-2.5 kWh of electricity for every 10s of content then I'd say definitely!

Thankfully web browsing is no where near that.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by xmprt » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 7:15 PM UTC

vlyan wrote: post #48

recitedropper wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sheer waste that accompanies image and video genAI is actually terrifying. I challenge OpenAI to put a "your carbon footprint" field next to each generation. If you have nothing to hide, more information is surely better, right?

would you like a carbon receipt for your video gaems, netflix, and reddit sessions?

reddit used to shared how much gold purchases went towards their server costs (pretty sure it wasn't 100% accurate but at least good to an order of magnitude). It was approximately $1/hour and they served ~100M monthly active users. So I don't think those metrics would demonstrate how wasteful traditional data centers are like you think it would.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by tyjen » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 7:15 PM UTC

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.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by raincole » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 7:15 PM UTC

I feel it's more like a Nano Banana 2 update. It's much faster than gpt-image-2 but the quality isn't much different.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by numlock86 » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 7:15 PM UTC

vlyan wrote: post #48

recitedropper wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sheer waste that accompanies image and video genAI is actually terrifying. I challenge OpenAI to put a "your carbon footprint" field next to each generation. If you have nothing to hide, more information is surely better, right?

would you like a carbon receipt for your video gaems, netflix, and reddit sessions?

that would be actually pretty cool and would cause more awareness for a lot of people. but something like this would go in both directions i am afraid, as with everything there surely would be people trying to do carbonmaxxing just for the sake of it, kind of like breaking a highscore. i am sure people like this already exist anyway, though.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by embedding-shape » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 7:16 PM UTC

vlyan wrote: post #48

recitedropper wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sheer waste that accompanies image and video genAI is actually terrifying. I challenge OpenAI to put a "your carbon footprint" field next to each generation. If you have nothing to hide, more information is surely better, right?

would you like a carbon receipt for your video gaems, netflix, and reddit sessions?

I'd love that. What if anything entertainment was required by law to have some value like that, with a standardized calculation?