From DALL-E to gpt-image-2: The Architectural Bet That Finally Fixed AI Text

This article was originally published on Medium. Two years ago, if you asked an AI to design a menu for a Mexican restaurant, you’d get a beautiful layout of “enchuita” and “churiros.” It looked like food, and the font looked like letters, but it was essentially a visual fever dream. The “burrto” became a classic meme in dev circles — a reminder that while AI could paint like Caravaggio, it had the literacy of a toddler. Yesterday, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Images 2.0 (gpt-image-2). I ran the same