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00:00ChatGPT Images 2.0 just launched, and it is a huge leap. We finally have a model that can
00:05compete with Nano Banana, which has retained the throne for a while now. Images 2.0 beats it in a
00:11lot of important areas, so I ran a ton of tests, and there's some really helpful tricks I've found
00:17along the way. Text and reasoning is an area I spent a lot of time on, and it's probably the
00:22most impressive area. I want to start with just a quick tip I noticed when trying to get
00:27realistic-looking images. At first, I was pretty unimpressed. I was testing out different words,
00:32like realistic photo, iPhone photo, cinematic, things like that. I just wasn't getting what I
00:37wanted, but then I discovered that adding the word photorealism to the prompt is extremely effective.
00:43I'll go through a few of these really quick. You can leave everything else the same and just add
00:47that one word, and it completely changes the result. Sometimes the first image looked good,
00:52but then I'd add the photorealism to it and see just how much better it could be.
00:57Every model has different tendencies like that, and sometimes it takes experimentation to get what
01:02you want. That was a big one I noticed pretty quick in here, so I wanted to share it. And
01:07you
01:07can see it's good at basic prompt adherence, has coherent faces, even when there's a lot of them.
01:12Nothing groundbreaking there, just an overall good image generator that's a big upgrade from the
01:17previous model. Image editing is another area we've gotten pretty used to these models being really
01:22good at, and this is great there too. So I'll go through these quick as well. I'm building up to
01:27the more significant capabilities, but I want to cover everything that's useful. I wanted to give
01:32this orc a battle axe. Perfect. Then I wanted to make the orc a female. Perfect again. And how about
01:38rotate, zoom in, and add a red glow to the horn. It does awesome, although there's a slight change
01:44in the colors, but a lot of models fail at this one completely. Then change the angle to a front
01:48view
01:49full body shot. Easy. And the character consistency is perfect there. This one's more difficult. There's
01:55a grid of eight things with specific instructions on how to place them in this room. And it did amazing.
02:02Maybe the copybara is a little big, but this is better than any other model I've tested this on.
02:07Especially all the details in the faces. Then this was a test to combine two real photos,
02:13and I've never gotten great results on this one. But it turned out great inside ChatGPT. However,
02:18the face is a little low fidelity, but they did also release a 4k option through the API.
02:24So I ran this prompt using the 4k option. I just did it in Higgs field. Then there is way
02:29more clarity
02:29in the face. And for a comparison, when I run this through Nano Banana using the 4k option,
02:35it just always looks pretty off. And while we're on this, I'll show a few more consistent character examples.
02:41So this man volcano boarding. Nailed it. Pretty solid action shot. Then me surfing, riding a barrel wave.
02:48The face is perfect, but I don't really like the aesthetic on this. It doesn't look too realistic.
02:53So again, I added the word photorealism, and this is way better. Then I asked to add in this woman,
02:59and we're skydiving together. Now we're walking through a haunted house nervously. I'm going quick,
03:04because we could do this before, but I would say this is slightly better than the results I've gotten
03:09elsewhere. Now trying that out with some text involved. It did incredibly well here. There's
03:14no error in the text on the whiteboard. I don't know if every one of these equations is correct,
03:18but each individual character is perfect. Although it's a little too nice of handwriting for writing
03:24on a whiteboard. But these books over here, those do have some issues in the text. But still,
03:29this is a really good job. This next one is where there was a bigger gap between ChatGPT and Nano
03:35Banana. And this will start to lead us into that text section. But this is just a parody movie poster.
03:40It got everything I asked for. But the part I wanted to focus in on was all this text at
03:44the bottom.
03:45This is just a small detail, but it did get everything perfect here. Music by BinaryBard.
03:50Edited by Cut and Code. Production Design by Pixel and Pine. In the past, these smaller details would have
03:55issues like in the result from Nano Banana. While I do like this aesthetic more, when I zoom into the
04:02text on the bottom, it is just all warped and complete gibberish. So ChatGPT was way better in
04:07this case. Then I will show this was my very first attempt at doing a thumbnail in here. They say
04:13no
04:13real direction in the prompts other than about the new GPT Image 2 release. And honestly, that first try
04:18is amazing. Way better than the out of the box thumbnails you get from Nano Banana or any other image
04:22generator. So I'm going to generate some more, but I will definitely use something from this model as
04:27the thumbnail for this video. And I'll create multiple options to A-B test. Now, I ran a lot
04:32more tests across different text challenges. First, I'll show just some of these insanely accurate UI
04:38recreations. This is unreal. I mean, I wouldn't recommend you do this. I just show it so you can see
04:44what's possible. Like we are definitely at the point where you cannot trust any images online.
04:48Like every one of these comments look perfect and have a unique name and profile picture for each.
04:53Or here was a screenshot of the MidJourney website's explore page. It's really accurate. Like even each
04:59one of these images looks like it was generated in MidJourney. And this one's a prompt I saw from
05:04Fofur on X. I'll have the handle of anyone where I saw one of their prompts and I'm recreating it.
05:08Then this one is probably the craziest of these. Comfy UI with a workflow for generating an image and then
05:13feeding it into an image to video pipeline. This looks so good. It has a prompt up here and then
05:19even the negative prompt conditioning. All of this text is bright. Using animate diff. Maybe there's a
05:25tiny issue right here that even has to load a motion Laura. Typical frames per second you would have.
05:31Some of these lines connecting the different nodes aren't perfect, but this is pretty close. Especially if
05:36you compare that to the one Nano Banana got. With that, there's just text issues all over the place. This
05:42new update
05:42makes ChatGPT even more useful, but there's already so many ways you can use it to get ahead in your
05:47career or business. So down in the description I have a free resource bundle called 5 Essential
05:52Resources for Using ChatGPT at Work. It covers all the capabilities, use cases, and best practices for
05:59implementing ChatGPT, including what's new in 2026. My favorite part is the document called 100 Ways to
06:05Try ChatGPT Today. It has a hundred prompts across a wide range of use cases you can copy paste and
06:11start
06:11using right away. It's one of the most helpful prompt databases, on top of all the other stuff
06:16that's in there. That is all free, just click the link in the description. Here I've got a recipe
06:20infographic. These were just amazing when we first saw them coming out of Nano Banana, and it does look
06:25great. There's no text issues anywhere on this one. But then when I compare it to the ChatGPT version,
06:31this one's just better. I mean it has more helpful information. Like it has the amounts of each
06:35ingredient. It has more detailed instructions. Just overall a more complete and helpful infographic.
06:41And this one I saw from Angel has a huge gap in the results. This result from Nano Banana is
06:47pretty
06:47bland. There's no errors in the text, but it doesn't look handwritten at all. And it's just way more
06:52boring. It didn't really capture the prompt. Then this one from ChatGPT is just amazing. You can zoom
06:58in. This looks like handwriting. Weird little scribbles all over the page. Just tons of little clip outs.
07:04It just looks like kind of random chaos. It's perfect. We are stardust in code. Comparing those
07:09two, it is not even close. And I will spend more time going through all of these text and reasoning
07:15capabilities. I think this is such a powerful use case and ChatGPT really does shine here. I do have
07:20some more unique and fun tests and challenges I'll go through at the end as well. And here's a prompt
07:24I've
07:24run quite a few times in different image generators. I did it through Nano Banana Pro and Nano Banana 2.
07:29They always get close, but not perfect. The main issue is always down at the bottom. I think part
07:35of the reason is because since there's 26 letters, that doesn't naturally fit into a perfect grid,
07:40but it just really wants it to. So it either skips or adds or mixes things up. Starting right here,
07:45the letters don't sync up with the animals. It's a Q for rhino, R sloth. So it's like the names
07:49and pictures of the animals skip Q, but then the letters skip S. And it was a different issue from
07:55Nano Banana 2. It was pretty close, but down on this bottom line again, it combined W and X into
08:01one.
08:02So it's supposed to have a whale and then an X-ray fish, but it just made them one tile.
08:05Then when you look at ChatGPT, it got this perfect. I've been running this prompt for a while,
08:10and this is the first time anything has gotten it perfect. And this is one to kind of figure out
08:14how many different images it can fit all into one image. This is a 10 by 10 grid, a total
08:18of 100
08:19objects that start with the letter A. I didn't go through every single one of these, but just scanning
08:24through, I don't see any issues. Actually, nevermind. Answering machine right here. I think it tried to
08:30put the jacket and the answering machine on one. Then antique key. Okay, so there's a couple issues,
08:35and I actually had to look this one up. I did not know that aubergine and eggplant are the same
08:40thing.
08:40So it did get that one right. So it was super, super close. Not perfect, but still very impressive.
08:47We've got a newspaper with the announcement of the rollout of GPT Images 2. The layout looks great,
08:52has other articles all throughout. There's no issues in the text. Super solid. When I've tried
08:57to do this in Nano Banana, if you give it all of the text, it does a pretty good job.
09:01Like if you
09:02input an article and ask it to do this. But when you don't, it usually will have issues in the
09:06other
09:06text around it. An engineer's screen, the dual monitors. If you zoom in here, that is super
09:12impressive. It has all this code, then all the folder structure over on the side, and that's trying to
09:17be a VS Code logo. And then over on this other screen, again, all the text is very good. Maybe
09:23some tiny issues when you look really closely. But overall, that's amazing. You can even zoom
09:28in onto the notebook. All the text is good. The blurring looks accurate. Really, really solid.
09:34For reference, here's what that looks like in Nano Banana. First off, the aesthetic is not very good.
09:38But if I zoom into any of this, it's just all nonsense. It gets the vibe right, but none of
09:44the text.
09:45Something else that's very impressive about this is its ability to think through prompts.
09:50So when thinking mode is on, it will go off and think for even a few minutes sometimes to do
09:55research
09:55and plan out the image. I'll take this one as an example, a detailed infographic for the differences
10:00of the architectures behind the leading AI video models. I can open up the thinking panel. You can see
10:06it makes a plan here and then searches for detailed sources on the different models. It researches them all
10:11and plans it out that it's trying to avoid using too many third party claims. It's focusing on only
10:17publicly disclosed details from the company. It does this for each different model. It discovers
10:22which parts aren't disclosed. All in all, this one thought for seven minutes before it started
10:27generating the infographic. And I can't zoom in when they're right here. So I'll jump back in here.
10:32This has just a ton of detail and all throughout the text looks amazing. There's a couple parts where it
10:39seems like I don't know if they're just trying to stylize this. So I wouldn't say it's wrong,
10:43but I'm not necessarily a fan of that. Obviously, I'm not reading through every single word on this
10:47whole thing. But any part I'm looking at, I'm not seeing errors. And okay, there, I finally found
10:53one here that should be emphasis. Overall, this is really good. And you may be thinking that Nano
10:59Banana has been able to do this type of thing. But when their infographics are this detailed,
11:03there are way more errors in the text. Like for example, this one was from Nano Banana. It's
11:08nice and aesthetic. And honestly, it probably has less information on it than the ChatGPT one.
11:14But if I zoom in here, right away, I'll start seeing them right here. I assume that should be a
11:19reasoning chain. Over here, this should be joint synthesis of audio. That should be performed.
11:27There's just a bunch of errors in this sentence. Pair it with this word here. Dolly zoom is spelled
11:32wrong. The infrastructure, like you can see they're all over this one. Like Nano Banana is really,
11:37really aesthetic with their infographics. But the more text they have, the more issues they get.
11:42I have come across some issues, particularly on this one. So I asked it to look up the different
11:482026 Toyota Sienna models and create an infographic with a feature list that highlights the differences
11:54between each. We've been looking into minivans right now. So this was relevant to me. But at a quick
11:59glance, the one from Nano Banana does look really aesthetic. But once I started actually going through
12:04it to verify these things, I started running into some issues. First off, it's actually completely
12:09missing one of the trims that should be between these last two here. It's called the Woodland
12:13Edition. You can see that ChatGPT got that. But Nano Banana didn't. That was a big one right off the
12:19bat. But when I actually pull this up on the site to fact check the other aspects of this, I
12:24started
12:24uncovering some more stuff. So the LE, it says, is a seven seater. I pull it up on the site,
12:30it says it has
12:31eight seats. On the Limited, it says it has a moonroof. I tried to check that. I did not see
12:36anything at all about a moonroof. I'm not going to walk you through every issue, but I came across
12:40quite a few. The one I got from ChatGPT, I didn't notice anything wrong. And just in general, it was
12:46a
12:46more helpful infographic. Like it listed the starting price. That's something you typically want to know
12:51when you're shopping around. So once I started looking into the details on these, ChatGPT started to
12:55stand out more and more. I won't do a deep dive into this one, but it is pretty crazy. Asking
13:00it
13:00to search the web for all the latest and most accurate information from today. Then generating
13:05that. He did it as a mood board, but I ended up converting it into a dashboard. So it did
13:09all this
13:10research, found each one of these news stories, generated an image to go with each one of them,
13:15compiled it all into a dashboard. And I did check some of this stuff, like the Timberwolves and Nuggets.
13:20It was 119 to 114. Then actually, I hadn't checked this one yet. I don't really know how to look
13:26up
13:26oil prices. I'm guessing it's just this thing. So that one is not perfectly accurate. Sure,
13:31if we were to go through, there'd be some minor details like that throughout here,
13:34but still very impressive. Then here's one more kind of in the text realm where it combines text
13:40with consistent characters. So I asked for a 10 panel storyboard showing the full scene play out
13:45with these paper characters after a fire in their paper town. Include the scene numbers and production
13:49notes. So it built up a full narrative. These characters stay perfectly consistent throughout
13:55every shot. Each one of these images has just a ton of detail in them. Discovering this flower
14:00coming out of the debris. Reunion. The community all coming together. You end up rebuilding the town.
14:07Super good job with that. I've got a few more different tests and challenges I ran. I'll start
14:12out with this one where I was comparing how good it could recreate a style. And this image in particular,
14:17Nano Banana did way better. This is an image I generated in Mid Journey of this bear with a
14:22super colorful, unique style. I asked for a bighorn sheep standing on a dramatic cliff using this
14:27same style. You can see Nano Banana matched that perfectly. ChachiPT on the other hand. This is a cool
14:34image, but definitely not the original style. So I ran another one with this papercraft image and said
14:39create a male character using the same style. They both did a pretty good job, actually. I wouldn't say there's
14:44a clear winner on this one. Then this one, another Mid Journey image. Turn the camera around to show the
14:49person this man is playing against in poker. You'd think it would be trying to maintain the same style,
14:54and ChachiPT did a pretty good job with that. You know, it's definitely still this guy here, and it's
14:58fairly close to that style. But Nano Banana, not at all. Just completely different lighting and
15:06completely different style. And as a side note, he also only has four cards. So I guess that's a toss
15:10up.
15:11Nano Banana won, then they tied, then ChachiPT won. And then for this one, I just tested out how it
15:16can
15:16generate in different aspect ratios. An 8-bit side-scroller adventure game in 3-1. And yeah,
15:21this is a really good style. Although that looks like a Goomba, so it's just stealing from Mario.
15:26But yeah, it can generate in all sorts of aspect ratios. Then one of those classic challenges,
15:31combining a few of the different challenges, actually. A hand with seven fingers, a wall clock showing
15:358-22 and a glass of red wine full to the top. This is so close to perfect. The hand
15:41is right,
15:41the glass is full to the brim. But then the clock, the minute hand is right, but this hour hand
15:45should
15:46be just a little bit further. But it's the closest result I've ever gotten. Then I did a couple of
15:51these where I said convert this into a photorealistic image. I would say it nailed that really,
15:56really well. Yeah, I like that result a lot. I tried it with that bear image. I think that one's
16:01a
16:01little easier for it to recreate. And then this one, I was not sure how it was going to go.
16:06Very curious. And it worked out really well. It's kind of difficult with these ones. I don't really
16:11know how to picture this one in my head, but then I see it and I'm like, yeah, it looks
16:14awesome.
16:15Then this is a prompt that they used in their live stream. I have the prompt,
16:18rice with thousands of grains, but one of the grains has the word Futurpedia etched onto it.
16:23And then you can zoom in on this and you got Futurpedia right there. I thought that was a super
16:29cool prompt. Definitely a difficult challenge. I did also try in Nano Banana to see if it would work
16:34and it found a way to make it work. And what's funny is I ran this multiple times and it
16:40cheated
16:40in the same way every time. Even this one, where if you were to zoom into this section,
16:44it doesn't actually have Futurpedia written there. So ChatGPT definitely won that round.
16:49All in all, ChatGPT won most of the time, not in everything. So I'll still use both tools,
16:54but for complex text. And when you want to combine research and make sure the output is something
17:00accurate, ChatGPT definitely won there. Although Nano Banana has really nice aesthetics when it comes
17:04to text. So I'll still use it depending on the situation. Overall, I am very happy with this new
17:09model. So I will definitely be utilizing this regularly. I'm going to test it out on thumbnails
17:13a lot more. Let me know what you think of the one on this video.
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