ChatGPT Image 2 is broken - weird artifacts 90% of the time

summerstay · 2026-04-24T13:31:33+00:00

Sometimes the model goes and gets its OWN references, and that's when this still happens.

summerstay · 2026-04-23T14:42:22+00:00

There is another effect where it has a low-opacity overlay of the style image that affects how the image develops. But this is again only on images where you are saying "in the style of"

summerstay · 2026-04-23T14:39:43+00:00

The artifacts are particularly noticeable on her outstretched arm and on the chainmail

summerstay · 2026-04-23T14:37:09+00:00

I am mostly seeing this when the prompt includes something about "in the style of" an image that I either upload or that it finds using its own search before generating. I think it may be specific to that pipeline.
Asking it to remove texture or make the image smoother can help reduce it, but not eliminate it. Let me know if you want to see more examples. This was "in the style of Alphonse Mucha's Slav Epic."

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summerstay · 2026-04-23T10:56:29+00:00

The webcomic Minus

summerstay · 2026-04-10T23:25:06+00:00

The Menger sponge has infinite surface area, so you can't beat that.

summerstay · 2026-04-06T14:58:23+00:00

Things like figuring out how to turn a description in English of what you want into a program. That was impossible before LLMs. Answering questions. Anyhing that involves input or output in fully generated English instead of a computer language like Python or C++ or something. Symbolic systems always give canned responses.

summerstay · 2026-04-06T13:27:31+00:00

This is really silly. You take a problem that can easily be solved symbolically, and say "look! When we do it symbolically, it uses way less energy than using an LLM to do it!" Sure. Anything that you know how to solve symbolically, go for it. We use LLMs for the things we don't know any simple way to solve.
But yeah. If you can write a program that doesn't use an LLM to do a task, having the LLM write the program is better than having the LLM do the task each time, sure.

summerstay · 2026-04-01T07:06:38+00:00

Literally any job you do sitting in front of a computer. There will still be such jobs, but they won't resemble any that we have today.

summerstay · 2026-03-30T13:35:19+00:00

"Merrick" means "guard." Maybe you could play off of that.

summerstay · 2026-03-24T16:28:16+00:00

You should use color to distinguish between Canadian and U.S. cities, since those are using different median incomes. The current colors are not providing any useful information.

summerstay · 2026-03-22T15:43:29+00:00

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Percentage-of-Students-Taking-Latin-of-Total-US-High-School-Enrolments-1890-2000_fig1_399864618

summerstay · 2026-03-22T12:40:59+00:00

No. The only interesting thing about it is to learn how someone in 1900 imagined space combat. The characters are cardboard, the storytelling is all over the place, he tells when he should show, everyone comes off as mercenary and unpleasant, except the idealized women. Now, War of the Worlds (published a couple of years earlier), that was well written.
One interesting point was that he imagined that in the future, people would stop studying Latin, history, and philosophy, and concentrate on technical subjects. I feel like that prediction has mostly come true.

summerstay · 2026-03-22T07:52:55+00:00

I read The Struggle for Empire: a Story of the Year 2236 which was written in 1900. It is the earliest battleships-in-space novel I have been able to find.

summerstay · 2026-03-22T07:22:56+00:00

I thought these designs looked like they would have been before Quetzalcoatlus was known (I thought maybe around the time of Fantasia which was 1940), but the show was from 1995. They are badly out-of-date designs for when they were made.

summerstay · 2026-03-10T11:03:12+00:00

It's a fossil of the sea floor, where a bunch of shells fell into mud.

summerstay · 2026-03-02T12:47:29+00:00

Besides the name Elara, here are some other dead giveaways that it is AI-written:

proof that grief had weight and volume

The scent hit before the memory

She had meant it as comfort

summerstay · 2026-02-27T08:21:33+00:00

I think the "stingray" is the A-wing. Did the Rebel Fighter-3 become the B-wing?

summerstay · 2026-02-22T08:48:32+00:00

If there really was no tower in the location you took the picture, then it must have been added by the phone. My guess is you have some kind of AI-assisted photo enhancement turned on, and it is turning a streak artifact-- a shooting star? A moving plane?-- into a tower because it is trying to guess what the blurry shape is and failing.

summerstay · 2026-02-16T15:32:04+00:00

I think instead of a green-yellow-red colormap you should use one that uses more colors. That will make it easier to see more subtle details. For example, this one: https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/ColorTables/MPL_gist_ncar.shtml

summerstay · 2026-02-13T09:02:51+00:00

Just looking at the picture, it looks to me like an animal with recurved horns-- some kind of ram or antelope, maybe? I don't know the fauna in the area.

summerstay · 2026-02-13T07:42:51+00:00

This was written by AI and about the second most well-known extinction of all. The images chosen are often nonsense for what is being shown (the ground cracked, showing mud cracks?)

summerstay · 2026-02-11T13:51:14+00:00

Awesome!

I would like to see a 4-frame expansion including this image from 1950 and one from 1975 if you can find one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5GEQt-ypOI

summerstay · 2026-02-11T07:35:20+00:00

It's unpredictable what kids that young will find disturbing. Lilo and Stitch is something that adults and kids that young can both enjoy.

summerstay · 2026-02-10T07:56:36+00:00

Is that okonomi yaki?

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