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by Razengan 4 hours ago
> Google has a better image model in the majority of cases.

Not always. A couple months ago (before ChatGPT Images 2) I tried various prompts on both Google's Nano Banana or whatever and ChatGPT.

"Capybara riding a tricycle. It has 7 tentacles instead of legs"

Google got the number of tentacles completely wrong: https://i.postimg.cc/nzY30y7X/Capybara-Gemini-Nano.png

and after some additions like spotted fur and multicolored tentacles, it was no contest:

ChatGPT: https://i.postimg.cc/02c2LrxV/Capybara-Chat-GPT-before-Image... (although there's still kinda 1 extra tentacle)

And Google still seems to have that odd choice of a European plaza/square/cobblestone street background for everything.

> Claude Opus and Fable are like a billion times better.

NOT at ALL: https://i.imgur.com/jYawPDY.png

Subscribed to Claude Opus for 2 months, with a few months gap between subscriptions to try different versions.

The UX/UI around Anthropic's products was excruciatingly annoying, right from the payment process, and Claude's AI was often hilariously dumb and "trying too hard", constantly full of "oops, you're right" backtracking and often borderline dangerous.

I tried Claude and ChatGPT Codex side by side on some tasks, with the same prompts. Each time, my confidence in Claude fell.

I've been subscribed to the $20 ChatGPT plan for more than 1 year, and this month, I am trying the $100 plan for 1 month.

ChatGPT Codex has been actually helpful and made me more productive enough that I can't imagine going back to coding without it.