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Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by King-Aaron »

etdznots wrote: post #427
ivraatiems wrote: post #417

There's maybe something cool at the core of this - help you ideate by seeing things in images! - but it's lost in all the other awful ways this gets used. More fake menus with food that looks nothing like the real thing. More fake book covers displacing real artists. I can admire and enjoy the work of coding agents, which mostly just help solve problems and save me time. I can appreciate that there are creative uses…

As a software user, I feel just as frustrated and disappointed when I look at a projects website, code, and commit history and it’s slop, why in the world would I use this garbage when I can just prompt my model to make my own? Realize the people using this to make slop menus and book covers feel the same way, wow this is useful and saves me so much time/money!

Notice that not a single business on earth so far is passing those time and money savings on however.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by earthnail »

Look at the kid in a costume. The shoulders of ChatGPT’s output are just wrong. Sure, the kid looks prettier, stronger with a wider upper body, closer to society’s ideal of a child. But it’s not him. If you put that child in a suit, he’d still have a smaller upper body and the arms wouldn’t fill out the suit as nicely as the child in the AI image does.

It’s just not the same child.

I know we’re gonna get there eventually, but still, seeing as this is their first demo image on the page I just can’t help but scream inside “HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THIS?”

It really makes me question whether the people building, or at least the people marketing this, actually understand their product. I love image generation for all kinds of use cases, but I find that particular example creepy.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by iamacyborg »

King-Aaron wrote: post #423
ivraatiems wrote: post #417

There's maybe something cool at the core of this - help you ideate by seeing things in images! - but it's lost in all the other awful ways this gets used. More fake menus with food that looks nothing like the real thing. More fake book covers displacing real artists. I can admire and enjoy the work of coding agents, which mostly just help solve problems and save me time. I can appreciate that there are creative uses…

AI art is making me realise that through my whole artistic career, the reason it's so hard to convince people that they need good design is because no one really appreciates good art and design other than people who have studied art and design .

It’s okay to make nice things for a small group of people, the challenge, obviously, is finding those people and exposing them to your work.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by user43928 »

ivraatiems wrote: post #417

There's maybe something cool at the core of this - help you ideate by seeing things in images! - but it's lost in all the other awful ways this gets used. More fake menus with food that looks nothing like the real thing. More fake book covers displacing real artists. I can admire and enjoy the work of coding agents, which mostly just help solve problems and save me time. I can appreciate that there are creative uses…

I am building an app and I need illustrations. Hiring someone is out of the question.

Previously, I would either not have illustrations or try to fit a stock image to my use case.

Now I can just generate illustrations that fit my use case well, and it takes very little effort.

Mine is just one out of thousands of conceivable use cases for image generation and editing. I appreciate that this capability is now available to everyone.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by [deleted] »

user43928 wrote: post #434
ivraatiems wrote: post #417

There's maybe something cool at the core of this - help you ideate by seeing things in images! - but it's lost in all the other awful ways this gets used. More fake menus with food that looks nothing like the real thing. More fake book covers displacing real artists. I can admire and enjoy the work of coding agents, which mostly just help solve problems and save me time. I can appreciate that there are creative uses…

I am building an app and I need illustrations. Hiring someone is out of the question. Previously, I would either not have illustrations or try to fit a stock image to my use case. Now I can just generate illustrations that fit my use case well, and it takes very little effort. Mine is just one out of thousands of conceivable use cases for image generation and editing. I appreciate that this capability is now availabl…

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Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by Razengan »

ivraatiems wrote: post #417

There's maybe something cool at the core of this - help you ideate by seeing things in images! - but it's lost in all the other awful ways this gets used. More fake menus with food that looks nothing like the real thing. More fake book covers displacing real artists. I can admire and enjoy the work of coding agents, which mostly just help solve problems and save me time. I can appreciate that there are creative uses…

I'm a solo coder. I love coding. Never used (or trusted) AI to generate code, only to review.

But good art and especially animation, beyond basic UI and logos, is a full-time commitment that requires giving up coding while you're working on the visuals (yes many great solo devs did their own art, but I prefer using the extra time on other shit, like making music and getting on with life)

Getting a good meat-based artist to hop on my Awesome Game Idea #458235 is easier if I can show them a running gameplay example, so they can see what the actual game will be like.

Up until recently I was just using free third-party asset packs like Kenney's: https://kenney.nl/assets/1-bit-pack

That works well but carries a risk of "painting yourself into a corner"; the longer you test a game in a particular art style (or music) the more you subconsciously tend to develop the rest of the game around that style! At least for me

AI-generated PLACEHOLDER art lets me iterate on a game closer to how I envision the final product to look like, right from Day 1.

I'd still hire/kidnap an actual artist before publishing.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by Razengan »

meerita wrote: post #111

I've really enjoyed using AI to generate images. For example, Long time ago, I read an amazing five-book saga called Riverworld, and I used AI to recreate many scenes, places, and ideas from the story. Seeing the books come to life through hundreds of images was a great experience. Definitely one of the coolest things to enjoy in 2026. Try it with your favorite books.

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Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by kouteiheika »

Nition wrote: post #320

Did anyone else notice that all the use cases they show here are "use ChatGPT Images to imagine all the things you'd like to have, but don't"? For some, they then show the thing being done, since just imagining it is a bit sad. But ChatGPT Images can't help you with that part. At best, it's providing creative inspiration - but that's often the most rewarding part of the process for a human... None of the examples sho…

> Did anyone else notice that all the use cases they show here are "use ChatGPT Images to imagine all the things you'd like to have, but don't"?

What else could they highlight? The other major use case for these models for normal people (generating NSFW images) is explicitly blocked by them.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by qbit42 »

iamacyborg wrote: post #433
King-Aaron wrote: post #423

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI art is making me realise that through my whole artistic career, the reason it's so hard to convince people that they need good design is because no one really appreciates good art and design other than people who have studied art and design .

It’s okay to make nice things for a small group of people, the challenge, obviously, is finding those people and exposing them to your work.

And getting paid…

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

King-Aaron wrote: post #431
etdznots wrote: post #427

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a software user, I feel just as frustrated and disappointed when I look at a projects website, code, and commit history and it’s slop, why in the world would I use this garbage when I can just prompt my model to make my own? Realize the people using this to make slop menus and book covers feel the same way, wow this is useful and saves me so much time/money!

Notice that not a single business on earth so far is passing those time and money savings on however.

These AI tools primarily benefit single person businesses and they are creating a race to the bottom so that's not entirely true
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