Drastically worse GPT Image 2 quality over the last 24 hours
OpenAI Developer Community
June 8, 2026
The difference is so glaring it’s as if it got silently switched to image-1. I’ve been working on a storyboard builder app and creating hundreds of test images over the last few weeks using a catalog of very detailed prompts which has produced consistent and high quality results. As of the last 24 hours it’s delivering dramatically worse results. Poor prompt adherence, artifacts/extra limbs, uncanny faces that look like the AI slop faces from a year ago. Something strange has happened.
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