Comment by Retric

> I don't recall ANY examples where it completely failed to do anything

> I’ve reviewed your examples, and it hasn’t changed my mind.

I think I have a better understanding of your thinking, but IMO you’re using a bar so low effectively anything qualifies. “it's the only one that seems to know what bokeh is at all, as the other models got none of them (other than Seadream getting the Newton right).” For bokeh look at the original then the enlarged images on the car. OpenAI blurs the entire image car and ground fairly uniformly, where Seedream keeps the car in focus while blurring background elements including the ground when it’s far enough back. Same deal with the cats where the original has far more distant objects in the upper right which Seedream puts out of focus while keeping the cats in focus while OpenAI blurs everything.

In my mind the other models also did quite poorly in general, but when I exclude failures I don’t judge OpenAI as the winner. IE on the kaleidoscopic task OpenAI’s girl image didn’t have radial symmetry and so it simply failed the task, Gemini’s on the other hand looks worse but qualifies as a bad approximation of the task.