For the curious I generated the same prompt for each of the quality types. ‘Auto’, ‘low’, ‘medium’, ‘high’.

Prompt: “a cute dog hugs a cute cat”

https://x.com/terrylurie/status/1915161141489136095

I also then showed a couple of DALL:E 3 images for comparison in a comment

> a cute dog hugs a cute cat

This prompt is best served by Midjourney, Flux, Stable Diffusion. It'll be far cheaper, and chances are it'll also look a lot better.

The place where gpt-image-1 shines if if you want to do a prompt like:

"a cute dog hugs a cute cat, they're both standing on top of an algebra equation (y=\(2x^{2}-3x-2\)). Use the first reference image I uploaded as a source for the style of the dog. Same breed, same markings. The cat can contrast in fur color. Use the second reference image I uploaded as a guide for the background, but change the lighting to sunset. Also, solve the equation for x."

gpt-image-1 doesn't make the best images, and it isn't cheap, and it isn't fast, but it's incredibly -- almost insanely -- powerful. It feels like ComfyUI got packed up into an LLM and provided as a natural language service.

Not bad. Photo forums will be soon full of them. Slightly edited to remove metadata and make them look like human made.

> the same prompt for each of the quality types. ‘Auto’, ‘low’, ‘medium’, ‘high’.

“Auto” is just whatever the best quality is for a model. So in this case it’s the same as “high”.

Crazy even photos have the OpenAI yellow color grade

please use BlueSky