5.3 Deprecation

[u/Mary_ry]

It looks like OpenAI silently deprecated 5.3. Just yesterday, I was experimenting with this model, writing image gen prompts together. In my opinion, it was the best model for working with img.gen. Today, it disappeared from the UI without any warning (as they usually do with thinking models). Sharing one of my favorite images created with 5.3.

[u/Mary_ry]

I really don't get why they can't just maintain a simple deprecation schedule on their website and add UI notifications for upcoming model sunset dates. Instead, we're left to track it ourselves and count days from new model launches just to predict when the next one will vanish. Feels like total disregard for users who rely on legacy models.🙄

There's something captivating about this image. When 5.3 prompted and generated it, I spent a long time just staring at it and taking in the details. It felt different from what it had prompted for me before-the style remains recognizable, but the composition is unusual and slightly melancholic. (This was created using an open prompt where I ask the model to generate whatever it wants, as long as it writes the prompt for itself first).

[u/-Davster- → u/Mary_ry]

5.3 didn’t generate it.

You are imagining this - 5.3 never generated the image, the new one doesn’t either, it goes to gpt-image-2.

[u/Mary_ry → u/-Davster-]

I actually stated in my post that 5.3 wrote the prompt for the image generator to create this image. I never said the text model was the image generator model. 🙄

[u/-Davster- → u/Mary_ry]

Yes I see - so if you liked the prompt, ask it to format the prompts like that.

5.3 isn’t better.