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Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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madaxe_again wrote: post #408
pibaker wrote: post #399

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the point of having a photo like that? Is spending time with your friends not enough in 2026? Do we must provide photographic evidence of all the fun you have been having or it did not happen?

Did you miss the last 15 years of social media? So many people I just stopped spending time with altogether as instead of being present they’d be posing for their 90th instagram shot by 10am - and then of course they want you to pose, too. So no. Spending time with your friends is not enough in 2026. I’m not even convinced people have friends now - just colleagues and mutual parasites.

I think it depends on who your friends are, and/or culture.

I was in France the other month and walking down to the river in Saumur, I noticed an area serving drinks (out of an old converted bus) with lights and suchlike (opposite the castle on the hill), with a small acoustic band. Nobody (and I mean nobody) had their phone out. The couple of hours I spent there, nobody was observable taking selfies. The age range was from young to old.

I was shocked. It was very different from the UK. Refreshingly so.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by 72deluxe »

onion2k wrote: post #24
AyanamiKaine wrote: post #12

Omg, I love how the first examples just show how easy you can fake things. Fake being at a party with your friends. Didn't make your bed, no problem, just fake it. The sad part is my mother would love "remixing" my old child photos of me.

Didn't make your bed, no problem, just fake it. Except you need to have taken a photo of the unmade bed, uploaded it to ChatGPT, prompted for the 'fake made bed' version, and downloaded the image. Surely it's less effort to just make the bed?

It would use far less energy to make the bed too, and help preserve Earth's future by avoiding needlessly expending energy.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote: post #40
AyanamiKaine wrote: post #12

Omg, I love how the first examples just show how easy you can fake things. Fake being at a party with your friends. Didn't make your bed, no problem, just fake it. The sad part is my mother would love "remixing" my old child photos of me.

>The sad part is my mother would love "remixing" my old child photos of me. How is that sad? Why is your mothers joy sad?

Because the mother's joy should hinge on the actual photo of the actual event of the actual person, not a fictional imaginary event or fake childhood of their child. The experience of being human should be tethered to reality.

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Post by 72deluxe »

Mashimo wrote: post #425
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…

If someone shows me a picture of a haircut, or a dress and asked me if it would look good on them, I can't imagine it. My mind does not work like that. I just can't visually see it.

At least it saves them asking you now, I guess?

There's no way to win in that situation anyway - if you said "yes I think it'd look great!" and then they went and got their hair cut to match your suggestion but didn't like it, is it your fault for saying "yes"?

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__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #227

> Arrange these flowers What kind of person cares enough to buy flowers for an arrangement, but is uninterested in arranging them? What's next, will we buy music for our AI's to listen to? Food for them to eat? There's a lot of drudgery that can be automated away, but this seems to be focused on automating the fun parts away.

I believe the next step will be from Douglas Adam's "Dirk Gently" book where an electric monk exists to believe things for you, to save you the effort and "bother" of having to have religious belief.

It's very sad.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by somenameforme »

geooff_ wrote: post #279

Still far too expensive. At this point, I'm much more interested in seeing releases for models chasing down prices on "good enough" to unlock new use-cases than I am SOTA. I've been using Grok Imagine V1 in prod for months now as its quality for my use-case is already more than enough.

Should probably mention this as a root comment, but various local image gen models like fooocus [1] run on basically any remotely modern hardware, have phenomenal output quality, and cost basically nothing.

I think companies trying to sell image gen at this point are just banking on ignorance.

[1] - https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by ryanjshaw »

pibaker wrote: post #399
xp84 wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trying to be as least cynical as possible, imagine if you were a party with 3 or more people, and you really wanted a nice pic like that to commemorate the night, but never got to take one all together because someone left early, and you were in the bathroom when they announced their departure. Yes, it's a major first-world problem to not get a photo, but to the right person, it could mean a lot to them to "fix" the…

What's the point of having a photo like that? Is spending time with your friends not enough in 2026? Do we must provide photographic evidence of all the fun you have been having or it did not happen?

You’re mistaking your preferences for the majority’s preferences. Huge chunk of humanity now chooses to experience in-person events recording it through their phones.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by sebzim4500 »

plastic041 wrote: post #368

I can't stop thinking that these use cases aren't real, and OpenAI is just gaslighting people. Humans don't need AI for these trivial things. This ad feels like a science fiction, where humans can't do anything without the help of their AI assistants. - Design a tattoo of my cat - What hairstyle should I have - Arrange these flowers What next? Who should I date? Open the door?

You're right that no one needs this, but OpenAI are right that many people will use it

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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Post by Caracas288 »

vunderba wrote: post #71
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

Another example was the doc for GPT-5, which had all its graphs messed up, but they said it was human error rather than AI.
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