This reading’s conditionsAs of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z · 7 platforms · 26 Jan – 1 Feb 2026
- As of
- 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z
- Coverage computed
- 1 Oct 2026 06:23Z
- Facts checked
- 1 Oct 2026 06:39:40Z
- Spam, bot and incentive filter, not applied yet
- Spam, bot and incentive posts haven’t been removed: their labels agree with a stronger model at kappa 0.43, below the threshold of 0.60
How posts were linked to the subject
- Unambiguous alias, V2
- 39 posts linked. Precision 93.3% (95% interval 84.1% to 97.4%), n 60 links judged, 0 unclear, run 18.
Measured statements
In development Written by fixed rules from this reading’s stored figures. No model writes them.
On Reddit, 32 distinct people posted about GPT Image between 26 January and 1 February 2026: 39 posts, an estimated 0.01% of that week's Reddit posts about AI (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Reddit · 26 Jan – 1 Feb 2026 · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 backfilled
4 more statements withheld. No posts about GPT Image on Hacker News between 26 January and 1 February 2026. No posts about GPT Image on arXiv between 26 January and 1 February 2026. Withheld for platforms not counted this week: Bluesky and Google News.
What this reading rests on
| Platform | Days counted | How the posts were collected |
|---|---|---|
| 7 of 7 | Loaded afterwards from an archive | |
| Hacker News | 7 of 7 | Loaded afterwards from an archive |
| arXiv | 7 of 7 | Loaded afterwards from an archive |
Not counted: Bluesky, YouTube, Google News and Exa, not being collected yet.
A day counts once it has settled: once the posts still expected for it are below the threshold, or, for posts loaded afterwards from an archive, once they’re loaded. Coverage day by day is in this reading’s conditions. How coverage is recorded.
This reading was made with methods that are still being validated. Every figure says which state it’s in.
Why: Its methods are still being validated.
- Released
- 2 Oct 2026
- Release
- 2026-W05
- Window
- 26 Jan – 1 Feb 2026
- Version
- 2 · superseded
- Next release
- Wednesday 11 Feb 2026
- Method
- 005c-series-v3.1
GPT Image in each platform’s table
Where GPT Image sits among every ranked subject on each platform. The heavy mark is GPT Image; every thin mark is another subject.
#40 of 45 on Reddit32 people · ChatGPT 7,471 (#1)
45 ranked subjects, each a tick on Reddit’s own people scale, 0 to 7,471. 40 more subjects aren’t ranked: their people figures are hidden (n 0–17 people, below the threshold of 20), so they aren’t drawn.
Not ranked on Hacker News: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
Distinct people who posted about each subject on each platform, 26 Jan – 1 Feb 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z, from release 2026-W05’s summary table (published). Each strip is on its own scale and nothing is added across platforms: one person can post on several. arXiv and Google News carry articles, which have no authors, so they have no ranking by people.
Attention
How many people posted about GPT Image on each platform, and GPT Image’s share of that platform’s posts. One row per platform, each on its own terms.
n 39 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 backfilled · sample: 10 posts, one per author
Not counted this week. Bluesky and Google News have no day in this window that counts, so they have no figures here.
Hacker News. People hidden: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Share and posts hidden: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
arXiv. People not applicable: arXiv posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren’t counted. Share and posts hidden: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
In development. Spam, bot and incentive posts haven’t been removed: their labels agree with a stronger model at κ 0.43, below the threshold of 0.60. The agreement is model-to-model.
Posts published 26 Jan – 1 Feb 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z; in development. People count distinct platform identities and are never added across platforms. Share is GPT Image’s posts over all posts AIDRAN captured on that platform in the window. Reddit’s posts include its comments. A normal share is gPT Image's share of each platform's posts in the 4 earlier stored weeks of the same era (2026-W01, 2026-W02, 2026-W03, 2026-W04), per platform. Its figures are in those readings. Choose any number to see what it rests on and the posts behind it.
Stored weeks
GPT Image in every week AIDRAN has stored so far, four weeks at a time (three on a phone), opening on this reading’s week.
W03–W05
W02–W05
People
W02
W03
W04
W05
Share of Reddit posts
W02
W03
W04
W05
GPT Image’s people and share of platform posts, W01–W40, 40 stored weeks. Each chart is on its own scale from all of them. All 40 are in development; the open dot is this reading. Why a week is hidden or ringed is in the notes on stored weeks at the foot of this page.
Communities
The communities the conversation about GPT Image happened in, grouped by platform.
Posts about GPT Image by community, 26 Jan – 1 Feb 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z; in development. Each platform is drawn on its own scale. The word after each community is its type: who is there, not what it’s about (users are people who use one AI product; builders build with AI). A post counts once, in the community it was posted in.
Change
Nothing in this reading could be compared with the previous reading of GPT Image, for 19–25 Jan 2026.
10 measures not compared, and why
- People posting about GPT Image, Reddit. n 31 people between 19 and 25 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 32 people between 26 January and 1 February 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change.
- People posting about GPT Image, Bluesky. n 0 people between 19 and 25 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 26 January and 1 February 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 19 and 25 January 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 19 and 25 January 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 26 January and 1 February 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 26 January and 1 February 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- People posting about GPT Image, Hacker News. n 0 people between 19 and 25 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 26 January and 1 February 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 19 and 25 January 2026: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Between 26 January and 1 February 2026: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
- People posting about GPT Image, arXiv. Between 19 and 25 January 2026: arXiv posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted. Between 26 January and 1 February 2026: arXiv posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted.
- People posting about GPT Image, Google News. Between 19 and 25 January 2026: Google News posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted. Between 26 January and 1 February 2026: Google News posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted.
- GPT Image’s share of Reddit posts. n 44 posts between 19 and 25 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 39 posts between 26 January and 1 February 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change.
- GPT Image’s share of Bluesky posts. n 0 posts between 19 and 25 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 26 January and 1 February 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 19 and 25 January 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 19 and 25 January 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 26 January and 1 February 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 26 January and 1 February 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- GPT Image’s share of Hacker News posts. n 0 posts between 19 and 25 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 26 January and 1 February 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 19 and 25 January 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts. Between 26 January and 1 February 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- GPT Image’s share of arXiv posts. n 0 posts between 19 and 25 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 26 January and 1 February 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 19 and 25 January 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts. Between 26 January and 1 February 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- GPT Image’s share of Google News posts. n 0 posts between 19 and 25 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 26 January and 1 February 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 19 and 25 January 2026: Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 19 and 25 January 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 26 January and 1 February 2026: Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 26 January and 1 February 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
Change compares this reading with the previous stored reading of the same subject, usually last week’s, and both endpoints stay visible with their dates. Each value carries its n; open it for its full conditions, coverage included. Stored weeks, above, cross eras, which marks a change in how weeks were captured: March era weeks were rebuilt from archives, with live capture from 7 Mar to 31 May, Archive backfill weeks were backfilled from archives (Reddit, Hacker News and arXiv only) and September era weeks were captured live from 16 Sep and filled in from archives.
Conditions
What every figure on this page rests on.
- As of
- 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z
- Coverage computed
- 1 Oct 2026 06:23Z
- Facts checked
- 1 Oct 2026 06:39:40Z
- Posts without facts
- 0
- Author coverage basis
- posts with an identifiable platform identity; article sources have none by definition
Coverage in this window, day by day for each platform, is drawn once: in the conditions rail beside the measured statements.
Coverage in this window
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- 2026-01-28 · backfilled
- 2026-01-29 · backfilled
- 2026-01-30 · backfilled
- 2026-01-31 · backfilled
- 2026-02-01 · backfilled
Bluesky
- 2026-01-26 · not started
- 2026-01-27 · not started
- 2026-01-28 · not started
- 2026-01-29 · not started
- 2026-01-30 · not started
- 2026-01-31 · not started
- 2026-02-01 · not started
YouTube
- 2026-01-26 · not started
- 2026-01-27 · not started
- 2026-01-28 · not started
- 2026-01-29 · not started
- 2026-01-30 · not started
- 2026-01-31 · not started
- 2026-02-01 · not started
Hacker News
- 2026-01-26 · backfilled
- 2026-01-27 · backfilled
- 2026-01-28 · backfilled
- 2026-01-29 · backfilled
- 2026-01-30 · backfilled
- 2026-01-31 · backfilled
- 2026-02-01 · backfilled
arXiv
- 2026-01-26 · backfilled
- 2026-01-27 · backfilled
- 2026-01-28 · backfilled
- 2026-01-29 · backfilled
- 2026-01-30 · backfilled
- 2026-01-31 · backfilled
- 2026-02-01 · backfilled
Google News
- 2026-01-26 · not started
- 2026-01-27 · not started
- 2026-01-28 · not started
- 2026-01-29 · not started
- 2026-01-30 · not started
- 2026-01-31 · not started
- 2026-02-01 · not started
Exa
- 2026-01-26 · not started
- 2026-01-27 · not started
- 2026-01-28 · not started
- 2026-01-29 · not started
- 2026-01-30 · not started
- 2026-01-31 · not started
- 2026-02-01 · not started
Excluded: posts not about AI or unclear
Posts linked to GPT Image that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, Reddit
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 0 posts · Reddit · 26 Jan – 1 Feb 2026 · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Posts linked to GPT Image that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, Hacker News
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 0 posts · Hacker News · 26 Jan – 1 Feb 2026 · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Posts linked to GPT Image that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, arXiv
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 0 posts · arXiv · 26 Jan – 1 Feb 2026 · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Each platform’s share is stated on its own and never combined.
Not counted this week, so not shown: Bluesky and Google News.
These conditions were frozen when the reading was created and are never recomputed.
Not in this reading yet
Parts this method doesn’t produce yet. They’re named, never shown as empty.
- Frames
- Frames aren’t measured yet.
- Register
- Register isn’t measured yet.
- Frame evidence
- Quotes for frames come with frames. The quotes here are the fixed samples behind this reading’s figures.
Cite this reading
In development Published 2 Oct 2026. Release 2026-W05. Its figures never change: a correction or revision is a new reading. Cite it with its permanent link.
AIDRAN. 'GPT Image', release 2026-W05, reading r_6d5899e0e53c (v2). Published 2 October 2026.
Permanent link /r/r_6d5899e0e53c
AIDRAN is the author and the publisher, so the citation names it once. Cite the permanent link, never a browse path.
Licensed CC BY 4.0: reuse it with this citation.
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References
GPT Image as Wikipedia describes it. Chosen by hand and checked, and not part of the measurement.
Context from the week
News and analysis about GPT Image published that week, found and checked for relevance. It’s outside AIDRAN’s measurement: no figure on this page comes from it.
Notes on stored weeksWhy the Stored weeks charts hide or ring a week: 3 coverage-limited platform weeks, each with its stored reason.
W10 coverage-limited: Partial day on Reddit: partial capture on 7 March 2026
W22 coverage-limited: Partial day on Reddit: partial capture on 31 May 2026
W38 coverage-limited: Partial day on Reddit: capture began at 00:24 UTC on 17 September 2026