Retro style programming posters by GPT-4o (native)

William Raendchen

01 Apr 2025 — 1 min read

Native image generation by GPT-4o has hit the market. This means, the LLM no longer delegates image generation to Dall-E via prompts, it is now able to produce images on it's own, translating from text to images internally. The most notable immediate upgrade is the ability to create coherent and (mostly) correct text.

Of course I had to try it. Here are some retro style propaganda posters I prompted up for April 1st.

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