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Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 by CamperBob2 on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @10:46PM (#47858224)
It'd be interesting if you could add HunyuanImage-3 to the competition. It's better than Z-Image at almost everything I've thrown at it.

It can be (slowly) run at home, but needs 96GB RTX 6000-level hardware so it is not very popular.

Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 by vunderba on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @10:50PM (#47858255)
I’ll have to give it another try. Its predecessor, Hunyuan Image 2.0, scored pretty poorly when I tested it last year: 2 out of 15, so it'll be interesting to see how much it has improved.

Here's ZiT, Gpt-Image-2, and Hunyuan Image 2 for reference:

https://genai-showdown.specr.net/?models=hy2,g2,zt

Note: It won't show up in some of the newer image comparisons (Angelic Forge, Flat Earth, etc) because it's been deprecated for a while but in the tests where it was used (Yarrctic Circle, Not the Bees, etc.) it's pretty rough.

Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 by CamperBob2 on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @11:37PM (#47858621)
It does quite a bit better than 2.0, I think. Or at least it may be stylistically different enough to justify a rematch against the others.

Ring toss: https://i.imgur.com/Zs6UNKj.png (arguably a pass)

9-pointed star: https://i.imgur.com/SpcSsSv.png (star is well-formed but only has 6 points)

Mermaid: https://i.imgur.com/R6MbMPX.png (fail, and I can't get Imgur to host it for some reason even though it's SFW)

Octopus: https://i.imgur.com/JTVH7xy.png (good try, almost a pass, but socks don't cover the ends of all the tentacles)

Above are one-shot attempts with seed 42.

Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 by vunderba on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @12:01AM (#47858824)
> https://i.imgur.com/6NXpI2q.png

You're killing me Smalls. This one is a 404. I'm really curious what it actually showed.

That ring toss is definitely leagues better than its predecessor. I’m not going to fault it too much for the star though, that one is an absolute slate wiper. The only locally hostable model that ever managed it for me was the original Flux, and I’m still not entirely convinced it wasn’t a fluke. Despite getting twice as many attempts, Flux 2, a much larger model, couldn’t even pull it off.

Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 by CamperBob2 on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @12:07AM (#47858861)
Yeah, I suspect you'd see some solid passing scores if you ran it as many times as some of the others.

For the mermaid, https://i.imgur.com/R6MbMPX.png sometimes seems to work but not consistently. It is probably triggering a porn filter of some kind. I need to find another free image host, as imgur has definitely jumped the shark.

The image shows a mermaid of evident Asian extraction lying on a beach, face down. There is a dolphin lying on top of her, positioned at a 90-degree angle. It doesn't show any interaction at all, so a definite fail.

Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 by vunderba on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @01:17AM (#47859353)
I still use Imgur from time to time just because it’s convenient, but I’ve been meaning to build an Imgur-style extension for my site for a while, something that would let me drag and drop media for quick sharing but it being Astro-based (static site generation) makes it tricky.