In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI, ChatGPT’s parent company, launched image generation features, allowing users to generate and enhance the quality of photos using GPT-4o.
The update, according to the Microsoft-backed company, is a big step towards integrating image production into AI-driven communication.
A sample image showing better text accuracy in AI-generated images than previous models was posted on OpenAI’s website.
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New update to improve the quality of AI-generated content
By correcting previous shortcomings in rendering text and fine details, the update seeks to improve the quality of AI-generated content.
ChatGPT has long been able to create images, especially with its DALL·E integration.
OpenAI’s most recent release, however, enhances this capability by more smoothly integrating it into ChatGPT, which probably makes it faster and more interactive or improves features like inpainting.
“At OpenAI, we have long believed image generation should be a primary capability of our language models. That’s why we’ve built our most advanced image generator yet into GPT‑4o. The result—image generation that is not only beautiful but also useful,” the blog post stated.
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All ChatGPT subscriptions provide the AI-generated image feature
The Plus, Pro, Team, and Free subscription tiers now provide the feature. Although the tool will allow people to produce amazing content, some of the results may be contentious, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who said the release represents a new degree of creative freedom.
“People are going to create some really amazing stuff and some stuff that may offend people; what we’d like to aim for is that the tool doesn’t create offensive stuff unless you want it to, in which case, within reason, it does,” he wrote on X.
“As we talk about in our model spec, we think putting this intellectual freedom and control in the hands of users is the right thing to do, but we will observe how it goes and listen to society,” he emphasised.