I think one thing to consider here is that I don’t use ChatGPT to create images - I always use the API. There may be something (maybe a memory issue) with ChatGPT that confuses gpt-image-2 which results in distortions (or other issues) when repeating the same prompt or creating prompt variations. Some of you have already alluded to this.
Here are six of the images created with the same prompt
Notice that although gpt-image-2 create different versions of the image, style and quality of detail were preserved.





