- Confusion has added AI -image generation to its platform
- The images are produced using the Openai model which was recently released to Chatgpt
- Confirmity also made Openais O3-MINI and XAI’s GROK-3 models available
AI Conversational Search Engine confusion can now add some AI visuals to your answer. And if these images are very similar to what chatgpt would do, yes, it’s because they use the same model.
If you are convinced, the left image was generated by the help of confusion, while it was created on the right by Chatgpt, both with the same prompt. It’s like an AI ghostwriter, but for fantasy landscapes with dragons instead of a legal thriller sold at an airport.
Perplexity quietly added the feature to its web platform this week and offers three picture generations per day. Day for free users and unlimited generations for Perplexity Pro users. It’s pretty straightforward to use it.
As with chatgpt, just ask AI to “generate a picture of” something or use similar language to configure the prompt.
Don’t worry if you don’t have the model (officially GPT-4.1) selected from the list of model settings; Confusion will automatically use it to produce the visual. It’s probably because none of the other models will make a picture of confusion at the moment.
You can generate images on confusion now. Ui is sweet and fun. We have also added support to GROK 3 and O4-MINI for model selection options (which already supports Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude 3.7, confusion barrel, GPT-4.1, Deepseek R1 1776), and looks at supporting O3 as … pic.twitter.com/rx6l98p2gApril 25, 2025
Confusion images
However, it was not the only addition to Perplexity’s abilities that the company announced. The AI assistant added a few other models to its stable.
XAIS GROK 3 model is now one of the choices for confusion to use to answer questions, while Openai’s O4-MINI model is now one of the “reasoning” model settings.
All this fits Perplexity’s approach to its AI platform. Instead of trying to build everything from scratch, the company curates models and weaves them into its platform to streamline access.
It is a smart spectacle, especially considering how many people may want to try an AI tool, but are unwilling to commit to only one of the many. Most people just want to ask a smart machine a question, get a clear answer, maybe see a cool picture of a flying whale while they are at it, and move on with their lives.
The addition of Chatgpt’s image generator is a nice splash of color to the AI search engine. It is likely to be particularly popular when it joins the voice assistant on the confusing mobile app.
