ChatGPT Gets an Image Library to Store Your AI-Generated Images

It’s 2025. And if you’re not generating images with AI, are you even living? OpenAI, never one to let a digital trend pass them by, has rolled out a new ‘Library’ feature in ChatGPT. The purpose? To corral all those GPT-4o-generated masterpieces you’ve been churning out. Or, more realistically, the slightly unsettling portraits of cats wearing tiny hats.

The Image Library: What Is It?

In short, it’s a digital shoebox for your AI-generated visuals. A single location to explore, find, reuse (and perhaps regret ever creating) your images. Think of it as the attic of your digital mind, filled with forgotten experiments and questionable creative choices.

Here’s the gist:

• All GPT-4o generated images are now automatically saved. Sorry, DALL-E holdouts, your retro creations are apparently beyond salvation. Start again using the new and improved model. Or don’t. We’re not the boss of you.
• Accessible to everyone: Free, Plus, and Pro users alike. A rare moment of digital equality. You can now find the ‘Library’ on the left sidebar of all your devices: Android, iOS, Web, Windows and MacOS. Finally, parity.
• Basic editing features included. Select, highlight and edit certain features of your images. Delete if you’re really ashamed.

Functionality: Edit, Save, Share (and Maybe Cringe)

The Library allows you to press and hold to edit, save or share your AI-generated images. Should you desire to modify your previous images you can do so from within the ‘Library’.

Deleting images requires deleting the whole conversation. So, unless you have a lot of skeletons in your closet, deletion might not be necessary. Or maybe it is…we don’t know your life.

The Social Media Angle: Is OpenAI Planning a Takeover?

Interestingly, the generated images are shown in a grid under the Library section in ChatGPT. This development comes hot on the heels of whispers about OpenAI developing a social media platform to challenge the likes of X and Instagram. Allegedly, this platform would be centered around ChatGPT’s image generation. Take that with a grain of salt, of course. Rumors are like digital tumbleweeds – they look interesting, but mostly just get in the way.

Expert Commentary:

• If OpenAI is planning a social media push, the Image Library makes sense. It’s about building a visual content pipeline. A content farm, really.
• The ability to edit images directly within the Library suggests a desire for users to iterate and improve their creations. Or, more cynically, to spend more time within the ChatGPT ecosystem.

ChatGPT: The Ultimate App?

Is OpenAI transforming ChatGPT into the ‘ultimate app for everything’? Probably not. But the image library is a step in that direction. The strategy seems to be adding features until ChatGPT replaces your entire digital life. To some, that may be a nightmare scenario, to others, convenience at its finest.

The big questions:

• How will OpenAI handle content moderation on a platform increasingly focused on image generation? The internet is full of surprises, most of them unpleasant.
• Will users actually use the image library, or will it become a digital graveyard of failed prompts and AI-generated abominations?
• And, most importantly, will my AI-generated cat in a tiny hat finally achieve the viral fame it deserves?

Time will tell. In the meantime, keep generating those images. The future (of visual content, at least) depends on it.