Arabic text-to-image shootout: GPT Image flubs Arabic while rivals nail it

aziz4ai · x · 2026-11-11

aziz4ai ran eight identical prompts across MiniMax H3, Seedream 5.5, Nano Banana 2.1, and GPT Image 2.6 in a five-style Arabic image-gen shootout (risograph posters, claymation dioramas, anime scenes, baroque oil paintings). Surprise finding: on the Arabic headline poster, Nano Banana, MiniMax and Seedream rendered the text correctly while GPT Image 2.6 — supposedly the strongest at Arabic writing — added stray dots to «الخيال». The author was unimpressed overall and still hand-letters text in real design work.

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