If you ever needed a visual representation of how far ChatGPT‘s AI image generation has come in just a year, then I don’t think there’s a clearer example than the two images I’ve generated and shown here, both from the same basic prompt, but created almost exactly a year apart.

The prompt I used was simply, “Draw a bird”.

As you can see, a year ago, ChatGPT was still creating images out of simple geometric shapes like triangles and circles:

Now, a year later, when I type in the same prompt, I get this:

The difference is like night and day, and it’s really hard to think that just a year separates these two images.

Free as a bird