Simon Willison on AI

Simon Willison@simonw

I really wish @OpenAI would give the new image generation feature in GPT-4o a usable name Are we really expected to say "I made this using GPT-4o image generation"? (That's also pretty unclear given that GPT-4o in ChatGPT used to be able to generate images using DALL-E instead)

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