My most-used and popular custom GPT is Visual Muse: illustrating concepts with style. I use it nearly every day. You can try it yourself on the OpenAI GPT Store.
Visual Muse was revised and updated in May 2026, when GPT-5.5 with version 2.O graphics was released in late April 2026. See here an Open AI slide show of graphics demonstrating and explaining the new capacities.
The Visual Muse: illustrating concepts with style updated to 5.5 opening screen now looks like this:
Here are a few examples using the PRO VERSION. First the prompt then the images generated at that time.
User Prompt: Generate a gallery of a different artists painting an image using different artistic styles
Visual Muse Responses:
User Prompt: Create a series of images to demonstrate your image generation abilities.
Visual Muse Response:
Conclusion: From Playful Experiment to Legal Frontier
If you stick only to words or code, you’re missing out on an entirely new dimension of thought. Visual generative AI like this is more than a hobby—it’s a window into how AI understands and represents the world, including how it learns visual metaphors, cultural styles, and conceptual abstraction. The latest version includes disclosure of the thoughts it goes through to come up with the image you requestred.
I created and maintain Visual Muse custom GPT—to help others, especially legal and professional users, move from beginner to advanced in the visual arts side of AI. It’s also a great way to learn about art, artists, and styles while building intuition for prompt engineering.
But there’s more at stake here than artistry.
Legal and Ethical Implications
With each release, OpenAI is not only enhancing creative tools—it is also reshaping the legal terrain:
- Intellectual property rights: Who owns the output? What happens when styles are replicated or derivative works are produced?
- Content moderation and misuse: As visual realism improves, so do the risks—misinformation, defamation, and deepfakes.
- Bias, fairness, and representation: Training data and style replication can encode cultural biases that legal systems must contend with.
If you’re a lawyer, judge, or legal technologist, you need to understand this firsthand. Not as theory. Not just through articles. But through use.
Like I always say, generative AI has to be used to be understood. If you’re not hands-on, your understanding—no matter how intellectually sharp—will be shallow. Possibly even illusory.
The tools are here. They are evolving fast. This is not the future—it’s the present. And it’s a great time to be alive, especially if you like to make things.
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