IMAGE MODEL · OPENAI NEAR-FIXES, THEN A BIG FIX
GPT Image / ChatGPT Images.
- Episodes
- 20
- First seen
- 031 FEB 16 2025
- Last seen
- 083 SEP 20 2026
- Spoken mentions
- 63
The Fast Hours take
Rory and Drew tracked GPT Image through several near-fixes: version after version kept the same warm yellow-green tint and boxy 3:2 crops (Ep. 39, 49), and GPT Image 2 was 'praised early, then called nerfed' once it struggled with scale and added SynthID watermarking (Ep. 69). Version 2.5 finally felt like 'a big fix' — better edit consistency and custom aspect ratios (Ep. 82) — with Rory later praising its handling of anatomy and crowds of consistent characters (Ep. 83).
Into it 8Mixed 9 Not sold 3Discussed 0 oldest → newest
Receipts about GPT Image / ChatGPT Images
“It fixed the things where it was lacking and mad respect for that because that was the problem.”
“I still find the sharpness and the HDR tuning and like the the clarity to be dialed up way too high on a lot of this stuff.”
“If you start to go into like multiple edits, it becomes like just this jumbled like pixelated noise mess. … I don't even try to edit things anymore.”
“Where it was lacking, the reason you would still use nano, it fixed those things, which I think is also relative to the idea of it being called 2.5 versus a whole new thing where it's called three.”
“For the micro details that they're getting, like, look at the beard, right? I'm seeing the stitching on the SL logo on his hat.”
“We had two things with ChatGPT's image model we would have liked to have seen better. And they didn't fix either one … We still got this 3,300 Kelvin warm tint to every single image, and then we still got the airbrush face.”
Every episode with GPT Image / ChatGPT Images
- Episode 83 SEP 20 2026 20 Year Creative Vet Sold Golden Wolf to Doodles, Then Went All-In on AI 2.5 · Praised for rendering human anatomy and crowds of distinct, consistent characters Into it
- Overtime SEP 14 2026 GPT Image 2.5 Speedrun. What’s New and What’s Better? 2.5 · Speedrun of multi-edit annotations, sketch-to-image, background removal, and custom aspect ratios vs. GPT Image 2 Into it
- Episode 82 SEP 13 2026 What Can OpenAI’s Astra and GPT Image 2.5 Actually Do? 2.5 · Reviewed as a big fix: better edit consistency, multi-edit comments, sketch input, and custom aspect ratios, though Rory flags over-sharpened HDR on heavy edits Mixed
- Overtime AUG 31 2026 We Tested Midjourney’s New Editor Live. Here's How to Use It. Comparison point; hosts say its framing and cropping are always dead-centered, lacking composition Not sold
- Episode 80 AUG 30 2026 A 24 Year Old AI Creative Director Gives Away Her Playbook The first capable GPT image model unlocked an early client illustrated-product asset library for her Into it
- Episode 75 JUL 26 2026 How to Make AI Images That Don’t Scream “I Used AI” Grouped with Nano Banana and Flux as a capable but interchangeable generalist model; used for one chrome-effect demo. Mixed
- Episode 70 JUN 07 2026 The Weird AI Video Formula Getting Millions of Views His workhorse for professional brand edits, though he calls it 'atrocious' at rendering gold grills. Mixed
- Episode 69 MAY 24 2026 Google Dropped Too Many AI Tools. Which Ones Matter? GPT Image 2 · Praised early, then called nerfed; struggles with relative scale and now adds SynthID watermarking. Mixed
- Episode 68 MAY 17 2026 The Prompt Is Dead, Long Live the Reference + The Monet Trap GPT Image 2 · Via Codex, used to build reusable style-reference and character sheets with strong micro-texture detail. Into it
- Episode 67 APR 26 2026 GPT Image 2 Is Good. But Is It Nano Good? GPT Image 2 · Praised for typography, font-building and sports-photo micro-detail; still slightly noisy skin and more conservative on real likeness. Mixed
- Episode 60 JAN 01 2026 Fast Hours 2025 Wrapped: Tools, Shifts, and Wake Up Calls 4.5 / 4o · Marked as 2025's real starting point: the first natural-language image edits inside a chat interface. Into it
- Episode 59 DEC 21 2025 Midjourney v8 Countdown + Nano Banana Pro vs ChatGPT Image 1.5 Image 1.5 · Compared against Nano Banana Pro on realism; still has warm color cast and airbrush-smooth faces. Not sold
- Episode 53 OCT 26 2025 Cracking Midjourney’s Style Explorer + Freepik’s Rise + Higgsfield Prompt Hack Included in the fan-out test as 'ChatGPT image'; ran noticeably slower than the other models Not sold
- Episode 49 AUG 31 2025 Midjourney Token Bashing, Nano Banana, and Weavy with Marco Isle Rory says it's locked to roughly 3:2 crops and can look flat, 'yellow and green' Mixed
- Episode 48 AUG 16 2025 Midjourney Video Update: HD for All & Batch Size Changes + Our Style Explorer Wishlist Cited for having far higher image coherence than Sora despite a similar hype cycle Into it
- Episode 42 JUN 09 2025 Can Midjourney Actually Compete in Video? +Sref & Monetization Talk Cited as already offering the multi-reference consistency Midjourney is delaying to V8 Into it
- Episode 39 MAY 09 2025 Midjourney Omni-Reference and --exp: Showing You How They Actually Work Tested for character consistency and outfit compositing; changes details it was told to keep and renders a warm yellow tint Mixed
- Episode 35 MAR 31 2025 ChatGPT Image Gen Just Went Nuclear! + A (Final) Midjourney V7 Preview GPT-4o Image · New native image generator in ChatGPT: accurate long-paragraph text rendering, conversational in-context edits, wireframe templating and JSON style-profile extraction Into it
- Episode 33 MAR 09 2025 Midjourney After Dark—Organized Chaos & Wabi-Sabi Drew liked its prompt coherence but found outputs still read too "AI" to pass as photorealistic Mixed
- Episode 31 FEB 16 2025 Midjourney: New Tricks, Wild Updates, and Deep Cuts Called solid on coherence via heavy text prompting, but not reference-image driven like Midjourney Mixed
Quick answers
When did Fast Hours first talk about GPT Image / ChatGPT Images?
GPT Image / ChatGPT Images first came up in Episode 31, “Midjourney: New Tricks, Wild Updates, and Deep Cuts”, published February 16, 2025.
What is the latest Fast Hours episode about GPT Image / ChatGPT Images?
The most recent is Episode 83, “20 Year Creative Vet Sold Golden Wolf to Doodles, Then Went All-In on AI” (September 20, 2026).
How many Fast Hours episodes discuss GPT Image / ChatGPT Images?
20 episodes so far. In the 20 we have logged in detail, Rory and Drew were into it 8 times, mixed 9, not sold 3, and simply discussed it 0.
