OpenAI’s New Image Generator Is Trying to Take Your 6-Year-Old’s Job
Users are leveraging OpenAI's new image generation model, GPT Image2, to recreate photos in a simplistic MS Paint-style doodle format, sparking a lighthearted online trend. The generated images mimic the crude, scribbly aesthetic of hand-drawn MS Paint art but lack the human imperfections that give such drawings charm. Unlike previous AI art controversies, this trend is seen as trivial and not infringing on copyrighted styles, though it highlights the disproportionate use of computing resources for simple outputs.
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Just about everyone has made doodles in MS Paint—or at least something equivalent. There’s something charming about the way that simple lines can create something recognizable to the human eye, and something impressive about someone using the app to make a genuinely expressive piece of art. Now, what if we removed all of that charm and just jacked the style, without any of the human touch that makes it interesting in the first place? Well, then you’d get the latest ChatGPT…
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