Readable text inside generated images unlocks a completely different category of use case. Documents, slides, mockups. That's not incremental.
GENERATIVE AI
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AI Image Engine Ethics Controversy Unethical Company Practices
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the system literally promised me a powerful new image engine to try. i am not going to pay money to that unethical company but you are welcome to try my tall tandem w panniers example and post the output here
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ChatGPT’s New Image Engine Shows Limited Understanding Capabilities
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There seems to be some excitement around “ChatGPT’s powerful new image engine”, but as ever, its functional understanding of the world seems limited. I first learned about the new system when some some smart aleck on X sent me an example of the new system trying to label a bike
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Pro and Ultra Subscriptions Get Higher Usage Limits
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we haven’t changed any of the limits besides to give pro and ultra subs higher limits
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Alibaba’s Shipping Speed and Qwen3.6 27B Dense Model Performance
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Alibabas shipping-speed is insane. Qwen3.6 27b dense looks impressive tho
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LLM Choice Significantly Impacts GPT-Imagegen-2 Output Quality
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This wasn't the case with previous image generators, but the LLM you select has a huge effect on GPT-imagegen-2 output. GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro will produce much better images, especially for complex things. This is, of course, not intuitive or explained anywhere.
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Deep Think vs Deep Research: Understanding Advanced AI Models
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Deep think != Deep Research, the latter uses flash and pro
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MiniMax AI Models Promotion: Free Music and Discounted TTS
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AI/ML API is rolling out a major promotion in collaboration with MiniMax, bringing their latest models to the forefront of the Playground – and they reached out to me to tell all of you 🙂
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) 22 avril 2026
For the next 7 days:
• MiniMax Music → Free access
• Text-to-Speech → 50% off
• Video… https://t.co/ZmyT4XJrSQAI/ML API is rolling out a major promotion in collaboration with MiniMax, bringing their latest models to the forefront of the Playground – and they reached out to me to tell all of you 🙂 For the next 7 days:
• MiniMax Music → Free access
• Text-to-Speech → 50% off
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AI Models Have Preferred Names: Marcus Chen, Aldric, Kira, Mara Vance
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All of the AI models have preferred names. If you asked Claude 4.5 for a software developer, you are going to get Marcus Chen. Wizards are mostly named Aldric. Space pilots are Kira from Claude, Mara Vance from GPT-5.2. I guess LinkedIn Bros are Kai now. https://
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OpenAI Image Generator Routing Issue Under Investigation
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Someone from OAI has reached out to me and it seems like this image was *NOT* generated with Image 2, but it was routed to a different image generator due to "decision boundary issue." They are looking into this now.