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NYU's Kyunghyun Cho says ChatGPT and Gemini generate unsettling hallucinations when prompted to restore blank or missing images

ChatGPT generates nightmarish, distorted figures instead of returning errors

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Kyunghyun Cho@kchonyc#15inAI

on the other hand, @GeminiApp creates an image related to "restoration" or some random stock photo.

3:59 PM · Jun 7, 2026 · 6.3K Views
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Negative users criticize ChatGPT for refusing photo restorations and producing tamer images because it removes the weird chaotic outputs they found most appealing.

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Kris Kashtanova@icreatelife

@kchonyc @GeminiApp Interesting

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Cody Blakeney@code_star

@llm_wizard That’s just an average night out with the boys

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Cody Blakeney@code_star

It’s starting to refuse and the photos are getting less weird in real time. That’s a bummer man.

Cody Blakeney@code_star

The first image was a policy violation, the 2nd wasn’t horrific but is unsettling in a funny way

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Chris 🇨🇦@llm_wizard

@code_star "less weird" -> found footage ass looking picture of a little alien bro

wtf did you see?

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@code_star @llm_wizard In, the alien seems to be completely zoned out of this world

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@code_star @llm_wizard I wanna get drunk with you so badly

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Cody Blakeney@code_star

@xeophon @llm_wizard Hell yeah brother

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Cody Blakeney@code_star

@xeophon @llm_wizard Do you want to in the tub or out?

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Cody Blakeney@code_star

@xeophon @llm_wizard We’ll have to get you some breakfast tacos or something to cure the hangover in the morning, but bet.

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@code_star I asked 5 times, all got rejected

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Anish Bhanushali@anish_9207

@code_star Not sure if I've interrupted a yoga session or an exorcism

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Rugbist@rugbist_

@code_star theyre actively taming the chaos lol

feels like watching a wild animal get housebroken in real time

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Lumin@luminxbt

@code_star the ai sanding down the edges in real time is honestly the biggest loss

funny unsettling was the whole point

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Saylor@seylorra

@code_star theyre actively nerfing the chaos as we speak. give it 6 more months, midjourney v1 will look like 90s hip hop videos.

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anpaure@anpaure

@llm_wizard @code_star rotten dot com

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Nate@NateGenX

@code_star Yeah, OpenAI will never let people have fun with their products.

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M4rc0z@dreamworks2050

@llm_wizard @code_star Bro got touched the wrong way lol

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James@jamesthetoaster

@code_star Don’t know about that

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Strata@ChainZenit

@code_star that's a shame, the weird stuff was the best part

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Strata@ChainZenit

@kchonyc @GeminiApp that is honestly so hit or miss sometimes

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