# Gpt-image-1 nerfed for anyone else?

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-image-1-nerfed-for-anyone-else/1255916>\
**Category:** API\
**Tags:** gpt-image-1\
**Created:** [May 9, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-image-1-nerfed-for-anyone-else/1255916 "2025-05-09T04:00:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![zeeshan\_jafri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/zeeshan_jafri/32/627244_2.png) [@zeeshan\_jafri](https://community.openai.com/u/zeeshan_jafri)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-image-1-nerfed-for-anyone-else/1255916/1 "2025-05-09T04:00:06Z")

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I have been using the API to edit a photo with another phone, and in the style of studio ghibli. It was working great before but it’s not working the same now. It creates the ugliest thing I’ve seen now. I was using quality=high flag before but I don’t think the edit endpoint it using that flag anymore.

Is anyone else still able to create high quality studio ghibli style images from their code?

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**Author:** ![j.dovile](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/j.dovile/32/500968_2.png) [@j.dovile](https://community.openai.com/u/j.dovile)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-image-1-nerfed-for-anyone-else/1255916/2 "2025-05-10T17:09:04Z")

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Different use case but same! gpt-image-1 not working as it was before. In my case, it seems it doesn’t read the input picture anymore.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_James\_Collin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/michael_james_collin/32/512322_2.png) [@Michael\_James\_Collin](https://community.openai.com/u/Michael_James_Collin)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-image-1-nerfed-for-anyone-else/1255916/3 "2025-05-20T12:10:54Z")

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same here, the gpt-image-1 edit api is giving incredibly low quality responses. especially when compared to the chat interface. inconcistently too, i think im being A/B tested onto low quality models but im still paying token costs for high quality which sucks. also its the API why A/B test there?

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**Author:** ![Anthony\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/anthony_smith/32/631064_2.png) [@Anthony\_Smith](https://community.openai.com/u/Anthony_Smith)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-image-1-nerfed-for-anyone-else/1255916/4 "2025-05-24T14:43:10Z")

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same for me… why did they do this… out of interest, did you just upgrade to pro… I’ve only noticed since changing from plus to pro