As evidenced by the sepia tone, 4o is clearly editing the images. It’s a tell that will surely be fixed, but there’s no reason to believe any other online only model isn’t doing the same. They can generate as many images as they want before sending it to you. I assumed earlier versions were batching a bunch and sending you the best, now they’re likely doing that then editing it as well.
Yeah, that’s so smart to make it seem their model is better than others
Is also pretty obvious that the models have some built in prompt system rules that makes the final output a certain style. They seem very consistent
It also looks to have the temperature turned way down, to ensure max adherence, while midjourney etc seem to have higher temperature.more interesting end results, flourishing, complex Materials and backgrounds