# 🔗 ChatGPT's powerful new image engine

- Author: @gurupanguji
- Date: 2026-04-24
- URL: https://gurupanguji.com/blog/2026/04/24/chatgpts-powerful-new-image-engine/
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- Tags: quotes

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> But if you look closely, there are several errors, and those errors are revealing. For example, the rear center-pull (?) brake is mislabeled as the seat stay, and the big gear on the back is mislabeled as the rear brake. There is a label for a spoke that is pointing to blank space.
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> In many modern bikes, of course, a rear brake *can* be found back there, but not in this diagram. Instead this system has combined a typical *position* for a modern disc brake system with a *diagram* of an older (though still in use) caliper (or similar) system. The system doesn’t actually understand how the various parts *function.*
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> And of course there are literally hundreds of labeled bikes on the internet as a quick Google Image Search would reveal. (Which is why my usual test here has been a tandem bike, to make things a little more challenging.)

*Source:* [ChatGPT's “powerful new image engine”](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/chatgpts-powerful-new-image-engine)

The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect of _generative AI output_ feels more real to me than ever.