I access DALL-E through the ChatGPT web interface, and suddenly images are downloading as lossy WebP images instead of lossless PNGs. Is this intended behaviour? If so, how do I get PNGs again?

So, you wasted 2 GPT-4 requests to get your image, instead of one? Nice. Are you sure that what it gave you is actually PNG? Open it with Notepad, see what are the first two words.

Don’t forget - you can always stop paying for DALL-E and start paying for Midjourney! And that’s it!

[image] dmki: So, you wasted 2 GPT-4 requests to get your image, instead of one Chapter 3 in my fictional ChatGPT Plus Creator’s Guide is the employment of iteration abilities by prompting. [image] ▶ Free PNG for you to enjoy

That, actually “worked”, thank you. 2 concerns, however: How long will it take for OpenAI to close the loophole, and The quality. Despite the instruction, it wasn’t 24-bit PNG, it was 8-bit, far from lossless. I tried it a few times, it’s always 8-bit PNG. I assume that it generated LQ WebP, and t…

[image] dmki: Despite the instruction, it wasn’t 24-bit PNG, it was 8-bit, far from lossless. I tried it a few times, it’s always 8-bit PNG. I assume that it generated LQ WebP, and then lost even more in conversion, but conversion to PNG was quick and dirty, by assuming that 8 bits were enough. …

If I use the aspect ratio it recommends, it saves as webp and I can’t use it at all, but if I use my own ratio I’m able to see it. Right now I’ve only tested it with 99:128 and 2:3, but it seems to do the trick. The quality is another issue entirely, oof.

This is an utterly pathetic move from OpenAI. Unsubscribed, gonna use alternative services, fortunately there are plenty already.

Best workaround I’ve found is to use Adobe Photoshop to convert from WEBP to PNG.

That’s not a workaround. You are literally just changing the filename extention

DALL-E images downloading as WebP

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delmarsurf February 18, 2024, 5:55pm 111

Just ask GPT to convert to PNG and it creates a download link. Not big deal.

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