About GPT-5's release and whether image models can imagine scenes outside their training data.
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Yes 74 (66%)Not sure 32 (29%)No 6 (5%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About GPT-5's release and whether image models can imagine scenes outside their training data.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
So far GPT-5 has not been able to pass my personal "Turing test" which has been unsuccessful for the past several years starting through various versions of Dall-e up to the latest model. I want it to create an image of Santa Claus pulling the sleigh with a reindeer in the sleigh holding the reins, driving the sleigh. No matter how I modify the prompt it is still unable to create this image that my daughter requested a few years ago. This is an image that is easily imagined and drawn by a small child yet the most advanced AI models still can't produce it.
I think this is a good example that these models are unable to "imagine" something that falls outside of the realm of it's training data.