OpenAI’s ChatGPT Images gets faster, with sharper details and more refined edits
OpenAI Group PBC said today it’s giving its image-generation tool a bit more artistic flair, announcing the launch of ChatGPT Images 2.5, an update to ChatGPT Images 2.0 that debuted in April.
According to OpenAI, the new tool is able to generate images with “more natural lighting and richer textures” than before, and is better at following user’s instructions “across multiple turns.” It’s much faster than before, too, capable of generating images up to 50% faster, and there’s a new tool called Sketch, which lets people sketch out images using their finger on a touchscreen to use as a reference point for the image they want to generate.
The updates also mean ChatGPT Images is now better at preserving the details of subjects in reference photos, OpenAI said in a blog post. For instance, distinctive facial features and other identifying details can now be carried through more reliably across multiple image generations and edits within a single conversation.
The new model will also preserve details that the user has not asked it to change when requesting an edit. It will even do this with complex scenes that have multiple subjects and objects or busy backgrounds. With ChatGPT Images 2.0, such details would often degrade when users attempted to make targeted edits, but version 2.5 does better at maintaining the overall stability of the image, so users can make pinpoint edits.
