I tested the new ChatGPT Images - it's a stunning improvement, and enormously fun

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• ChatGPT Images is a major upgrade over previous image tools.
• Text rendering and recontextualization are now surprisingly accurate.
• Edits still change details but avoid uncanny valley results.

It's been less than a week since OpenAI introduced GPT-5.2. Now, it's back with a major update to ChatGPT's image generation capability. It's almost like it has an army of robots writing software for it. Oh, wait. It does.

Also: I put GPT-5.2 through a 14-round test, and the AI model raised some serious questions

This update is overdue. A week or so ago, I reached out to OpenAI about their image generation tools. I wanted to ask about how I'd noticed that DALL-E wasn't being discussed much and that the overall ChatGPT image quality ...