ChatGPT’s new AI image capabilities are genuinely amazing, but they’re so frustrating to use that it made me want to throw my laptop in the trash

OpenAI has added image generation and editing capabilities to ChatGPT 4o, and while it can produce seriously good images, and do impressive edits to them, its strange rules about text rendering ended up completely frustrating me.

First, let’s start with the positives.

Previously ChatGPT relied on DALL-E for its image generation, and now it can do the job itself. The images it produces are slow to appear but exceptionally good. Take a look at this robin in winter, for example.

It also has no problem creating people. Here’s a happy family playing on the beach:

(Ok, if you look really closely at the mom’s right hand you can see the fingers are still a bit wonky).

Impressive edits