I have a Nano Banana Pro blog post in the works expanding on my experiments with Nano Banana (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917875). Running a few of my test cases from that post and the upcoming blog post through this new ChatGPT Image model, this new model is better than Nano Banana but MUCH worse than Nano Banana Pro which now nails the test cases that previously showed issues. The pricing is unclear but gpt-image-1.5 appears to be 20% cheaper than the current gpt-image-1 model, which would put a `high`-quality generation in the same price range as Nano Banana Pro.
One curious case demoed here in the docs is the grid use case. Nano Banana Pro can also generate grids, but for NBP grid adherence to the prompt collapses after going higher than 4x4 (there's only a finite amount of output tokens to correspond to each subimage), so I'm curious that OpenAI started with a 6x6 case albeit the test prompt is not that nuanced.
Anyone else have issues verifying with openai? I always get a "congrats you're done" screen with a green checkmark from Persona, nothing to click, and my account stays unverified. (Edit, mystically, it's fixed..!)
Great to have continued competition in the different model types.
What angle is there for second tier models? Could the future for OpenAI be providing a cheaper option when you don't need the best? It seems like that segment would also be dominated by the leading models.
I would imagine the future shakes out as: first class hosted models, hosted uncensored models, local models.
Unlike Nano Banana it allows generating photos of children. Always fun to ask AI to imagine children of a couple but it's also kinda concerning that there might be terrible use cases.
In the image they showed for the new one, the mechanic was checking a dipstick...that was still in the vehicle.
I really hope everyone is starting to get disillusioned with OpenAI. They're just charging you more and more for what? Shitty images that are easy to sniff out?
In that case, I have a startup for you to invest in. Its a bridge-selling app.
If this was a farm of sweatshop Photoshopers in 2010, who download all images from the internet and provide a service of combining them on your request, this would escalate pretty quickly.
Question: with copyright and authorship dead wrt AI, how do I make (at least) new content protected?
Anecdotal: I had a hobby of doing photos in quite rare style and lived in a place where you'd get quite a few pictures of. When I asked gpt to generate a picture of that are in that style, it returned highly modified, but recognizable copy of a photo I've published years ago.
Hope to see more "red alert" status from the ai wars putting companies into al hands on deck. This is only helping cost of tokens and efficacy. As always competition only helps the end users.
Alt text is one of the nicest uses for ai and still Open AI didn't bother using it for something so basic. The dogfooding is not strong with their marketing team.
AI-generated images would remove all the trust and admire for human talent in art, similar to how text-generation would remove trust and admire for human talent in writing. Same case for coding.
So, let's simulate that future. Since no one trusts your talent in coding, art or writing, you wouldn't care to do any of these. But the economy is built on the products and services which get their value based how much of human talent and effort is required to produce them.
So, the value of these services and products goes down as demand and trust goes down. No one knows or cares who is a good programmer in the team, who is great thinker and writer and who is a modern Picasso.
So, the motivation disappears for humans. There are no achievements to target, there is no way to impress others with your talent. This should lead to uniform workforce without much difference in talents. Pretty much a robot army.
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[ 0.21 ms ] story [ 60.7 ms ] threadOne curious case demoed here in the docs is the grid use case. Nano Banana Pro can also generate grids, but for NBP grid adherence to the prompt collapses after going higher than 4x4 (there's only a finite amount of output tokens to correspond to each subimage), so I'm curious that OpenAI started with a 6x6 case albeit the test prompt is not that nuanced.
What angle is there for second tier models? Could the future for OpenAI be providing a cheaper option when you don't need the best? It seems like that segment would also be dominated by the leading models.
I would imagine the future shakes out as: first class hosted models, hosted uncensored models, local models.
Where is the image given along with the prompt? If I didn't miss it: Would have been nice to show the attached image.
They even linked to their Image Playground where it's also not available..
I updated my local playground to support it and I'm just handling the 404 on the model gracefully
https://github.com/alasano/gpt-image-1-playground
I really hope everyone is starting to get disillusioned with OpenAI. They're just charging you more and more for what? Shitty images that are easy to sniff out?
In that case, I have a startup for you to invest in. Its a bridge-selling app.
Question: with copyright and authorship dead wrt AI, how do I make (at least) new content protected?
Anecdotal: I had a hobby of doing photos in quite rare style and lived in a place where you'd get quite a few pictures of. When I asked gpt to generate a picture of that are in that style, it returned highly modified, but recognizable copy of a photo I've published years ago.
impressive stuff though - as you can give it a base image + prompt.
So, let's simulate that future. Since no one trusts your talent in coding, art or writing, you wouldn't care to do any of these. But the economy is built on the products and services which get their value based how much of human talent and effort is required to produce them.
So, the value of these services and products goes down as demand and trust goes down. No one knows or cares who is a good programmer in the team, who is great thinker and writer and who is a modern Picasso.
So, the motivation disappears for humans. There are no achievements to target, there is no way to impress others with your talent. This should lead to uniform workforce without much difference in talents. Pretty much a robot army.