Sunday, 26th October 2025
Sora might have a ’pervert’ problem on its hands (via) Katie Notopoulos turned on the Sora 2 option where anyone can make a video featuring her cameo, and then:
I found a stranger had made a video where I appeared pregnant. A quick look at the user's profile, and I saw that this person's entire Sora profile was made up of this genre — video after video of women with big, pregnant bellies. I recognized immediately what this was: fetish content.
This feels like an intractable problem to me: given the enormous array of fetishes it's hard to imagine a classifier that could protect people from having their likeness used in this way.
Best to be aware of this risk before turning on any settings that allow strangers to reuse your image... and that's only an option for tools that implement a robust opt-in mechanism like Sora does.
GenAI Image Editing Showdown (via) Useful collection of examples by Shaun Pedicini who tested Seedream 4, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Qwen-Image-Edit, FLUX.1 Kontext [dev], FLUX.1 Kontext [max], OmniGen2, and OpenAI gpt-image-1 across 12 image editing prompts.
The tasks are very neatly selected, for example:
Remove all the brown pieces of candy from the glass bowl
Qwen-Image-Edit (a model that can be self-hosted) was the only one to successfully manage that!
This kind of collection is really useful for building up an intuition as to how well image editing models work, and which ones are worth trying for which categories of task.
Shaun has a similar page for text-to-image models which are not fed an initial image to modify, with further challenging prompts like:
Two Prussian soldiers wearing spiked pith helmets are facing each other and playing a game of ring toss by attempting to toss metal rings over the spike on the other soldier's helmet.