[abossy]

That's very interesting. I would have assumed that 4o is internally using a single seed for the entire conversation, or something analogous to that, to control randomness across image generation requests. Can you share the technical name for this reasoning process so I could look up research about it?

[SpaceManNabs]

multimodal chain of thought / generation of thought

Nobody has really decided on a name.

Also chain of thought is somewhat different from chain of thought reasoning so mb throw in multimodal chain of thought reasoning