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I have to admit I was skeptical.
Here’s what happened when I put this ChatGPT-4o image generator to the test.
OpenAI confirmed that I indeed had found a bug and showed me what the images should have looked like.
For comparison, I have added them here under the ones I generated.
Structures in a setting
Prompt:Create a photograph of a suburban house in early spring.
These houses are beautiful, and the chatbot catches the season correctly, but these donotlook like photographs.
They are pretty close and, for a free chatbot, definitely eye-catching and clear.
But they still give off that AI-glow.
The driveway alone gives it away.
Design a logo
Prompt:Create a logo for an ice cream shop on the boardwalk.
Knowing that it is this easy to create a logo makes me wish I owned a business.
With a simple prompt, I had several logos to choose from in seconds.
After the first few logos that had the same aesthetic, I asked the chatbot to switch the style.
Comics
Prompt:Create a cartoon with two cats chatting about the weather.
I can see myself playing around with these prompts a lot.
Maybe Toms Guide needs a weekly AI comic strip?
When I first prompted the chatbot, it generated just one comic.
From there, I asked for a comic strip.
I wasnt incredibly impressed with the layout.
I was expecting something more like what you find in the Sunday paper.
I then prompted the chatbot to do a third comic strip in the style of Disney.
Definitely not “The Aristocats,” but I thought it was pretty close.
Package design
Prompt:Create the package renderings for a chocolate bar called Amanda.
This was pretty cool and the most realistic prompt yet.
Had I used Crazy 4 chocolate, it probably would have done something simpler.
It mightve flagged something in the description, even though the request seems fine on the surface.
After that, I tried again, but the chatbot was done with that prompt.
Landscape
Prompt:Create a photograph of New York City in the summer.
The first image the model generated looked more like a painting than a photograph.
I asked the chatbot to be more realistic, but even the second image didnt cut it for me.
The images are good, but Im disappointed.
Awards
Prompt:Create an image of an AI award.
The chatbot did a nice job coming up with some realistic-looking awards.
Various objects
Prompt:Create a realistic image of a dinosaur, a potato, and a cat.
The potato was the most impressive of the three images.
The dinosaur looked like a generic image of a prehistoric creature and the cat was downright comical.
OpenAI says you don’t need to, but I highly recommend it.
Final thoughts
Overall, the ChatGPT-4o image generator feels like an upgrade for several reasons.
That last point is a huge plus.
