ChatGPT gave me a very odd airplane not very similar to the real first flight, and frankly, the crowd and landscape veered into the surreal. ChatGPT made a very impressive imitation of a photo, with spectators who look like real people and the correct number of passengers in the first plane (one).

Learn about ChatGPT Image Generator's creative applications, from product mockups to YouTube thumbnails. See why it's a game-changer.

The arrival of OpenAI's DALL-E 2 in the spring of 2022 marked a turning point in AI, when text-to-image generation suddenly became accessible to a select group of users, creating a community of digital explorers who experienced wonder and controversy as the technology automated the act of visual creation.

The model can depict legible text and is more practical than the surrealistic generators of the past. But who will use it?

OpenAI is rolling out native image generation powered by GPT-4o to ChatGPT, bringing several noteworthy improvements to the table.