Same prompt showdown: OpenAI's newest image model mocked as "plastic" vs Gemini
pigeon__s · x · 2026-11-05
A user compared OpenAI's just-released image model (gpt-image-2.6-sunburst-high) against Google's gemini-3-pro-image-preview, released 349 days earlier, using the exact same photorealistic portrait prompt. The OpenAI output was slammed as over-polished "slop" — too perfect, too plain, lacking depth — while the Gemini render looked more naturally photographic. Commenters argued over which looks more AI-ish, with some claiming nano banana still wins decisively and others noting the "AI look" is getting harder to spot.