Head-to-head: OpenAI's new image model blue edges out 2.5 flare in Berlin police test
flowersslop · x · 2026-10-18
flowersslop ran the same prompt — candid iPhone photo of a woman in a German police uniform in Berlin — through three image pipelines: ChatGPT web (which he suspects is degraded by "slop" prompt expansion), 2.5 flare via Arena API, and OpenAI's new image model blue (aurora-blue-alpha).
His verdict: "blue looks a tiny bit better I guess?" The side-by-side images show ChatGPT web noticeably weaker on realism, with blue slightly ahead of flare.
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