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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.

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I'm guessing if you work on these images the whole day you start to lose the ability to judge image quality. like your brain becomes slopified

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.

> Wondering why they chose this edit for the showcase.

They probably didn't care to check those images in detail.

I've also found the OpenAI image models to lose fine detail on image edits compared to Nano Banana or Flux models which faithfully retain input source image geometry and details. I was hoping this might be different but it sounds similar to previous OpenAI image models where something is lost in translation during image editing.

I know the API (assuming you're using it) lets you set the output size of the edited images - I haven't done a huge amount of testing with > 1mp, so I'd be curious if this might mitigate some of that.

https://developers.openai.com/api/reference/python/resources...

And don't forget the 'Thing' from Addams Family in the shoulder of the guy on the left.

The guy on the left in that same photo only has three fingers (and a thumb, I suppose). I thought image generation has already outlived that.

Edit: I feel stupid I didn't see the original OP already mentioning three finger issue. I'll just leave it here.

The dog is even more on the nose. The shadow shape is almost the same despite the dog getting quite a lot of volume around it's original body parts.

Haha yes, I immediately saw the fingers and was surprised 'cos I thought that was something they had "solved" by now

Maybe it's like how spammers intentionally make their emails more obvious, because they have a very specific target audience.

Exactly this. "All this progress and they're back to miscounted fingers again?!"

The guy’s arm is also extremely long.

Dogs shadow didn't change

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