It's wild how much of a difference this is - images are coming in at around 35-40s. Very noticable, and makes a difference when you're iterating quickly: https://jjcm.org/gpt-image-2.5-speed.mp4

The sad part is my mother would love "remixing" my old child photos of me.

gpt-image-2.5-sunburst: 1421

gpt-image-2.5-flare: 1399

gpt-image-2 (medium): 1381

mai-image-2.6: 1331

Even with LM Arena being flawed, this is significant. I was planning to do a writeup on the original gpt-image-2 as it crushed every complex image comprehension benchmark I had...I'm glad I procrastinated since ChatGPT Images 2.5 seems like an even better starting point to test out what these models can actually do nowadays.

Many people still think AI images output the wrong number of fingers on a regular basis. (EDIT: this was an ironic comment to make in hindsight and I own it)

In order, there's:

- Imagine you had better decorations for your fish.

- Imagine you had a tattoo of your pet.

- Imagine you had a unique candle holder.

- Imagine you had a worse haircut.

- Imagine your flowers were arranged.

- Imagine your child had a suit.

- Imagine your dog had a costume.

- Imagine you owned a scanner.

- Imagine you could hang out with friends.

- Imagine your bed was made.

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 for agents with text, that they could save people time, and that the environmental and safety concerns potentially have solutions.

I just can't see my way to appreciating these art agents, or any use of AI as a replacement for a human creative process. It's not because their output is bad, anymore (though sometimes it still isn't great). It's because it is bereft.

Even if I could, nobody in my life would be okay with my using them alongside my actual creative work. In fact, they'd be pretty upset if I did. And if I found out they'd been sharing stories with me written by AI, I'd be mad, too.

I'd rather just see the prompts.

https://generative-ai.review/2026/09/rush-openai-image-gen-2...

right, off to bed now

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.

Does anyone here know which AI tool is good for this usecase?

I've tried Gemini and Adobe Firefly with 2 keyframes, but they cannot do looping animations, and they seem to have trouble getting icons right (they invent features that I don't want).

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.

Everywhere I go now I see places that blatantly used ChatGPT for their menus or posters and they all look the same.

It feels almost existential to the service, I know its a bit of survivor bias but so many images you can tell immediately are ChatGPT vs other image providers, and I feel many people are sick of them.

I'm 99% sure that that is the main tell AI sniffers rely on.

Pricing and availability

Images 2.5 is rolling out today to ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex users across all tiers on desktop, mobile, and web.

GPT‑Image‑2.5 Sunburst and GPT‑Image‑2.5 Flare are available in the API. See pricing details here.

and the link to the pricing details is a page where i am either too dumb to find the pricing details, or they don't exist

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.

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?

I had trouble weeding through all the marketing speak.

Yesterday tried GPT-6-Astra Light to have a kitchen remodel... well it did understand 2D space, an improvement when tried on GPT-5.6-Sol

But the image representation was way off and I was not satisfied... misplaced the window, drew a wall which was not on 2D image, cabinet size issues. Eh.

I super encourage others to learn just a little bit of art technique and your images are going to go to the next level. You need a little construction, perspective, gesture, anatomy, and you're pretty much off to the races.

Knowing names of illustration styles is great too. Look up "style transfer" if you are not familiar.

text-to-text is a solved problem.

Edit: finally, I have my horse on the moon. https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa0627e-b168-83e9-98e5-d5ad5a9cad... Though the horse doesn't have a spacesuit, neither does it have one in the Stable Diffusion wikipedia page.

Edit 2: finally got the kind of result I wanted https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa06813-4818-83e9-9c19-8c8ac9a348... https://chatgpt.com/s/p_359c0c38939c81918addaaa9de196f4e

The majority of the world does not want or need any of this, yet the nerds in SF that can hardly hold a conversation with another human being are pumping it out as quickly as they can.

I truly think we're fucked.