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Nano Banana image examples
- ec109685 1y agoGitHub should be so ashamed that the back button no longer works and jumps to top of page. They should have learned what do in SPA 101
- Animats 1y agoI have two friends who are excellent professional graphic artists and I hesitate to send them this.
- raincole 1y agoGiven Case 16, they might switch to a career making scientific diagrams.
- SweetSoftPillow 1y agoThey better learn it today than tomorrow. Even though it's might be painful for some who does not like to learn new tools and explore new horizons.
- mitthrowaway2 1y agoMaybe they're better off switching careers? At some point, your customers aren't going to pay you very much to do something that they've become able to do themselves. There used to be a job people would do, where they'd go around in the morning and wake people up so they could get to work on time. They were called a "knocker-up". When the alarm clock was invented, these people lose their jobs to other knockers-up with alarm clocks, they lost their jobs to alarm clocks.
- non_aligned 1y agoA lot of technological progress is about moving in the other direction: taking things you can do yourself and having others do it instead. You can paint your own walls or fix your own plumbing, but people pay others instead. You can cook your food, but you order take-out. It's not hard to sew your own clothes, but... So no, I don't think it's as simple as that. A lot of people will not want the mental burden of learning a new tool and will have no problem paying someone else to do it. The main thing is that the price structure will change. You won't be able to charge $1,000 for a project that takes you a couple of days. Instead, you will need to charge $20 for stuff you can crank out in 20 minutes with gen AI.
- GMoromisato 1y agoI agree with this. And it's not just about saving time/effort--an artist with an AI tool will always create better images than an amateur, just as an artist with a camera will always produce a better picture than me. That said, I'm pretty sure the market for professional photographers shrank after the digital camera revolution.
- AstroBen 1y agoI don't know if "learning this tool" is gunna help..
- metaphor 1y agoMy wife is a professional graphic artist and I sent it to her without hesitation...if only for the awareness.
- kertoip_1 1y agoI think it might be the same as with programmers. It might look like AI Agents can do all the programming, but when you actually try to use it do do things it quickly turns out to be not so much reliable.
- darkamaul 1y agoThis is amazing. Not that long ago, even getting a model to reliably output the same character multiple times was a real challenge. Now we’re seeing this level of composition and consistency. The pace of progress in generative models is wild. Huge thanks to the author (and the many contributors) as well for gathering so many examples; it’s incredibly useful to see them to better understand the possibilities of the tool.
- xnx 1y agoAmazing model. The only limit is your imagination, and it's only $0.04/image. Since the page doesn't mention it, this is the Google Gemini Image Generation model: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/image-generation https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/image-generation Good collection of examples. Really weird to choose an inappropriate for work one as the second example.
- smrtinsert 1y agoIs it a single model or is it a pipeline of models?
- SweetSoftPillow 1y agoSingle model, Gemini 2.5 Flash with native image output capability.
- minimaxir 1y ago[misread]
- pdpi 1y agoI assume OP means the actual post. The second example under "Case 1: Illustration to Figure" is a panty shot.
- zahlman 1y agoThis was reported and has been removed recently (https://github.com/PicoTrex/Awesome-Nano-Banana-images/issues/4 https://github.com/PicoTrex/Awesome-Nano-Banana-images/issue...), although the issue wasn't closed.
- vunderba 1y agoThey're referring to Case 1 Illustration to Figure, the anime figurine dressed in a maid outfit in the HN post.
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- moralestapia 1y agoWow, just amazing. Is this model open? Open weights at least? Can you use it commercially?
- SweetSoftPillow 1y agoThis is a Google's Gemini flash 2.5 model with native image output capability. It's fast, relatively cheap and SOTA-quality, and available via API. I think getting this kind of quality in open source models will need some time, probably first from Chinese models and then from BlackForestLabs or Google's open source (Gemma) team.
- minimaxir 1y agoFlux Kontext has similar quality, is open weight, and the outputs can be used commercially, however prompt adherence is good-but-not-as-good.
- vunderba 1y agoOutside of Google Deepmind open sourcing the code and weights of AlphaFold, I don't think they've released any of their GenAI stuff (Imagen, Gemini, Flash 2.5, etc). The best multimodal models that you can run locally right now are probably Qwen-Edit 20b, and Kontext.Dev. https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image-edit https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image-edit https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-1-kontext-dev https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-1-kontext-dev
- SweetSoftPillow 1y agoGoogle also open sources Gemma LLMs and embedding models, which are quite good at the time of release (SOTA or near-SOTA in the open source field).
- vunderba 1y agoOh very nice I wasn't aware of that [1] [2]. Adding the links as well. [1] https://deepmind.google/models/gemma https://deepmind.google/models/gemma [2] https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-7b https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-7b [2]
- minimaxir 1y agoI recently released a Python package for easily generating images with Nano Banana: https://github.com/minimaxir/gemimg https://github.com/minimaxir/gemimg Through that testing, there is one prompt engineering trend that was consistent but controversial: both a) LLM-style prompt engineering with with Markdown-formated lists and b) old-school AI image style quality syntatic sugar such as award-winning and DSLR camera are both extremely effective with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, due to its text encoder and larger training dataset which can now more accurately discriminate which specific image traits are present in an award-winning image and what traits aren't. I've tried generations both with and without those tricks and the tricks definitely have an impact. Google's developer documentation encourages the latter. However, taking advantage of the 32k context window (compared to 512 for most other models) can make things interesting. It’s possible to render HTML as an image (https://github.com/minimaxir/gemimg/blob/main/docs/notebooks/html_webpage.ipynb https://github.com/minimaxir/gemimg/blob/main/docs/notebooks...) and providing highly nuanced JSON can allow for consistent generations. (https://github.com/minimaxir/gemimg/blob/main/docs/notebooks/character_json.ipynb https://github.com/minimaxir/gemimg/blob/main/docs/notebooks...)
- vunderba 1y agoNano-Banana can produce some astonishing results. I maintain a comparison website for state-of-the-art image models with a very high focus on adherence across a wide variety of text-to-image prompts. I recently finished putting together an Editing Comparison Showdown counterpart where the focus is still adherence but testing the ability to make localized edits of existing images using pure text prompts. It's currently comparing 6 multimodal models including Nano-Banana, Kontext Max, Qwen 20b, etc. https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing Gemini Flash 2.5 leads with a score of 7 out of 12, but Kontext comes in at 5 out of 12 which is especially surprising considering you can run the Dev model of it locally.
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- ffitch 1y agogreat benchmark!
- echelon 1y agoAdd gpt-image-1. It's not strictly an editing model since it changes the global pixels, but I've found it to be more instructive than Nano Banana for extremely complicated prompts and image references.
- vunderba 1y agoIt's actually already in there - the full list of edit models is Nano-Banana, Kontext Dev, Kontext Max, Qwen Edit 20b, gpt-image-1, and Omnigen2. I agree with your assessment - even though it does tend to make changes at a global level you can least attempt to minimize its alterations through careful prompting.
- android521 1y agostill cannot show clock (eg a clock showing 1:15 am). the text generated in manga image is still not 100% correct.
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- destel 1y agoSome examples are mind blowing. It’s interesting if it can generate web/app designs
- mitthrowaway2 1y agoI've come to realize that I liked believing that there was something special about the human mental ability to use our mind's eye and visual imagination to picture something, such as how we would look with a different hairstyle. It's uncomfortable seeing that skill reproduced by machinery at the same level as my own imagination, or even better. It makes me feel like my ability to use my imagination is no more remarkable than my ability to hold a coat off the ground like a coat hook would.
- m3kw9 1y agoTo be fair, the model's ability came from us generating the training data.
- quantummagic 1y agoTo be fair, we're the beneficiaries of nature generating the data we trained on ourselves. Our ability came from being exposed to training in school, and in the world, and from examples from all of human history. Ie. if you locked a child in a dark room for their entire lives, and gave them no education or social interaction, they wouldn't have a very impressive imagination or artistic ability either. We're reliant on training data too.
- lawlessone 1y agoGonna try use this one instead of paying the next time i visit a restaurant.
- Terretta 1y agoAt a restaurant you pay for what they no longer have when you're done. You don't have to pay to look at food in a grocery, or a recipe in a library you go home and cook. You do pay for ingredients you use up. Unless the book you looked at, or YouTube video you aped, trained you to garden.
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- m3kw9 1y agoThe ability to pretty accurately keep the same image from an input is a clear sign of it's improved abilities.
- frfl 1y agoWhile these are incredibly good, it's sad to think about the unfathomable amount of abuse, spam, disinformation, manipulation and who know what other negatives these advancement are gonna cause. It was one thing when you could spot an AI image, but now and moving forward it's be basically increasingly futile to even try. Almost all "human" interaction online will be subject to doubt soon enough. Hard to be cheerful when technology will be a net negative overall even if it benefits some.
- signatoremo 1y agoBy your logic email is clearly a net negative, given how much junk it generates - spam, phishing, hate mails, etc. Most of my emails at this point are spams.
- frfl 1y agoIf we're talking objectively, yeah by definition if it's a net negative, it's a net negative. But we can both agree in absolute terms the negatives of email are manageable. Hopefully you understand the sentiment of my original message, without getting into the semantics. AI advancement, like email when it arrived, are gonna turbocharge the negatives. Difference is in the magnitude of the problem. We're dealing with whole different scale we have never seen before. Re: Most of my emails at this point are spams. - 99% of my emails are not spam. Yet AI spam is everywhere else I look online.
- wiredpancake 1y ago[dead]
- DrewADesign 1y agoTheir argument is false equivalence. You can’t just say “if you’re saying X is negative, you must believe that Y is negative because some of the negatives could be conceptually similar.” A good faith cost benefit analysis would rank both the cost and risks of an extremely accurate, cheap, on-demand commercial image generation service and an entirely open asynchronous worldwide text communication protocol, in different universes.
- AstroBen 1y agoThe #1 most frustrating part of image models to me has always been their inability to keep the relevant details. Ask to change a hairstyle and you'd get a subtly different person ..guess that's solved now.. overnight. Mindblowing
- Inityx 1y ago"Solved" is a strong word...
- osn9363739 1y agoNot that these examples aren't really good. But you only have to spend a small amount of time to find a lot of mistakes.
- eig 1y agoWhile I think most of the examples are incredible... ...the technical graphics (especially text) is generally wrong. Case 16 is an annotated heart and the anatomy is nonsensical. Case 28 with the tallest buildings has the decent images, but has the wrong names, locations, and years.
- SweetSoftPillow 1y agoYes, it's Gemini Flash model, meaning it's fast and relatively small and cheap, optimized for performance rather than quality. I would not expect mind-blowing capabilities in fine details from this class of models, but still, even in this regard this model sometimes just surprisingly good.
- vunderba 1y agoYeah I think some of them are really more proof of concept than anything. Case 8 Substitute for ControlNet The two characters in the final image are VERY obviously not in the instructed set of poses.
- ChrisArchitect 1y agosigh so many little details off when the instructions are clear and/or the details are there. Brad Pitt jeans? The result are not the same style and missing clear details which should be expected to just translate over. Another one where the prompt ended with output in a 16:9 ratio. The image isn't in that ratio. The results are visually something but then still need so much review. Can't trust the model. Can't trust people lazily using it. Someone mentioned something about 'net negative'.
- istjohn 1y agoYes, almost all of the examples are off in one way or another. The viewpoints don't actually match the arrow directions, for example. And if you actually use the model, you will see that even these examples must be cherry-picked.
- bflesch 1y agoThe way you formulated your message just made me realize that we got somehow duped into accepting the term "model" (as in "scientific model") as a valid word for this AI stuff. A scientific model has a theoretical foundation and specific configuration parameters. The way current AI is set up, you can't even reliably adjust the position of the sun.
- quesera 1y agoI wouldn't consider the word "model" to be too precious. It does not have an expectation of fidelity in general. Also, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
- bflesch 1y agoYou need to wait until someone does the exact picture you want, annotates it in their android photo library, and google uses it to train their AI models. But then they will be able to provide you the perfect result for your query, totally done with AI! ;)
- flysonic10 1y agoI added some of these examples into my Nanna Banana image generator: https://nannabanana.ai https://nannabanana.ai
- istjohn 1y agoPersonally, I'm underwhelmed by this model. I feel like these examples are cherry-picked. Here are some fails I've had: - Given a face shot in direct sunlight with severe shadows, it would not remove the shadows - Given an old black and white photo, it would not render the image in vibrant color as if taken with a modern DSLR camera. It will colorize the photo, but only with washed out, tinted colors - When trying to reproduce the 3 x 3 grid of hair styles, it repeatedly created a 2x3 grid. Finally, it made a 3x3 grid, but one of the nine models was black instead of caucasian. - It is unable to integrate real images into fabricated imagery. For example, when given an image of a tutu and asked to create an image of a dolphin flying over clouds wearing the tutu, the result looks like a crude photoshop snip and copy/paste job.
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- foofoo12 1y ago> I feel like these examples are cherry-picked I don't know of a demo, image, film, project or whatever where the showoff pieces are not cherry picked.
- autoexec 1y agoEven these examples aren't perfect. The "Photos of Yourself in Different Eras" one said "Don't change the character's face" but the face was totally changed. "Case 21: OOTD Outfit" used the wrong camera. "Virtual Makeup Try-On" messed up the make up. "Lighting Control" messed up the lighting, the joker minifig is literally just SH0133 (https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?M=sh0133 https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?M=sh0133), "Design a Chess Set" says you don't need an input image, but the prompt said to base it off of a picture that wasn't included and the output is pretty questionable (WTF is with those pawns!), etc. I mean, it's still pretty neat, and could be useful for people without access to photoshop or to get someone started on a project to finish up by hand.
- strange_quark 1y agoI thought the the 3rd example of the AR building highlighting was cool. I used the same prompt and seems to work when you ask it for the most prominent building in a skyline, but fails really hard if you ask it for another building. I uploaded an image I found of Midtown Manhattan and tried various times to get it to highlight the Chrysler Building, it claimed it wasn't in the image (it was). I asked it to do 432 Park Ave, and it literally inserted a random building in the middle of the image that was not 432 Park, and gave me some garbled text for the description. I then tried Chicago as pictured from museum campus and asked it to highlight 2 Prudential, and it inserted the Hancock Center, which was not visible in the image I uploaded, and while the text was not garbled, was incorrect.
- plomme 1y agoThis is the first time I really don't understand how people are getting good results. On https://aistudio.google.com https://aistudio.google.com with Nano Banana selected (gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview) I get - garbage - results. I'll upload a character reference photo and a scene and ask Gemini to place the character in the scene. What it then does is to simply cut and paste the character into the scene, even if they are completely different in style, colours, etc. I get far better results using ChatGPT for example. Of course, the character seldom looks anything like the reference, but it looks better than what I could do in paint in two minutes. Am I using the wrong model, somehow??
- epolanski 1y ago+1 I understand the results are non deterministic but I get absolute garbage too. Uploaded pics of my (32 years old) wife and we wanted to ask it to give her a fringe/bangs to see how would she look like it either refused "because of safety" and when it complied results were horrible, it was a different person. After many days and tries we got it to make one but there was no way to tweak the fringe, the model kept returning the same pic every time (with plenty of "content blocked" in between).
- SweetSoftPillow 1y agoAre you in gemini.google.com interface? If so, try Google AI Studio instead, there you can disable safety filters.
- epolanski 1y agoI use ai studio, no way to disable the filters.
- BoorishBears 1y agoSeedream 4.0 is not always better than Gemini Flash 2.5 (nano-banana), but when it is better, there is a gulf in performance (and when it's not, it's very close.) It's also cheaper than Gemini, and has way fewer spurious content warnings, so overall I'm done with Gemini
- stoobs 1y agoI'm pretty sure these are cherry-picked out of many generation attempts, I tried a few basic things and it flat out refused to do many of them like turning a cartoon illustration into a real-world photographic portrait, it kept wanting to create a pixar style image, then when I used an ai generated portrait as an example, it refused with an error saying it wouldn't modify real world people... I then tried to generate some multi-angle product shots from a single photo of an object, and it just refused to do the whole left, right, front, back thing, and kept doing things like a left, a front, another left, and weird half back/half side view combination. Very frustrating.
- SweetSoftPillow 1y agoAre you in gemini.google.com interface? If so, try Google AI Studio instead, there you can disable safety filters.
- stoobs 1y agoI'm in AI Studio, and weirdly I get no safety settings. I had them before when I was trying this and yes, I had them turned off.
- vunderba 1y agoYeah I don't see them anymore either. I use the API directly but unless I'm having a "Berenstein Bears moment" I could have sworn those safety settings existed under the Advanced Options in AI Studio a few weeks ago.
- mustaphah 1y agoIn a side-by-side comparison with GPT-4o [1], they are pretty much on par. [1] https://github.com/JimmyLv/awesome-nano-banana https://github.com/JimmyLv/awesome-nano-banana
- thisOtterBeGood 1y agoWow. GPT-4o is exceptionally biased towards pop culture. Harry Potter, Aragon, a sith lord, Elon Musk...
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- vunderba 1y agoIt is HIGHLY unlikely that site is using actual Gemini Flash 2.5 - ICANN shows the domain was registered on Aug 14th 2025, practically a week before Google even announced the availability of Nano Banana. https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-flash-image https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-...
- namibj 1y agoAfter looking at Cases 4, 9, 23, 33, and 61, I think it might be suited to take in several wide-angle pictures or photospheres or such from inside a residence, and output a corresponding floor plan schematic. If anyone has examples, guides, or anything to save me from pouring unnecessary funds into those API credits just to figure out how to feed it for this kind of task, I'd really appreciate sharing.
- vunderba 1y agoI can't provide a definitive answer for this - but I will say that the Google's SDK docs state that a single edit request is limited to a maximum of THREE images so depending on how many you have - you might have to sort of use the "Kontext Kludge", aka stitching together many of input images into a single JPEG. https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/models/gemini/2-5-flash https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/models...
- n8cpdx 1y agoHas AI generation of chest hair finally been solved? I think this is the first time I’ve seen a remotely realistic looking result.
- foobarbecue 1y agoMan, I hate this. It all looks so good, and it's all so incorrect. Take the heart diagram, for example. Lots of words that sort of sound cardiac but aren't ("ventricar," "mittic"), and some labels that ARE cardiac, but are in the wrong place. The scenes generated from topo maps look convincing, but they don't actually follow the topography correctly. I'm not looking forward to when search and rescue people start using this and plan routes that go off cliffs. Most people I know are too gullible to understand that this is a bullshit generator. This stuff is lethal and I'm very worried it will accelerate the rate at which the populace is getting stupider.
- zahlman 1y ago> Most people I know are too gullible to understand that this is a bullshit generator. I'm more worried about the cases that aren't trying to be info diagrams. There's all this "safety" discourse around not letting people generate NSFW, and around image copyrights etc. but nobody talks about the potential to use things like #11 for fraud. "Disinformation" always gets approached from a political angle instead of one of personal gain.
- downboots 1y agoComputer graphics playing in my head and I like it! I don't support Technicolor parfaits and those snobby little petit fours that sit there uneaten, and my position on that is common knowledge to everyone in Oceania.
- neilv 1y agoUnfortunately NSFW in parts. It might be insensitive to circulate the top URL in most US tech workplaces. For those venues, maybe you want to pick out isolated examples instead. (Example: Half of Case 1 is an anime/manga maid-uniform woman lifting up front of skirt, and leaning back, to expose the crotch of underwear. That's the most questionable one I noticed. It's one of the first things a visitor to the top URL sees.)
- raincole 1y agoI'm really surprised that it can generate the underwear example. Last time I tried Nano Banaba (with safety filter 'off', whatever it means), it refused to generate a 'cursed samurai helmet on an old wooden table with a bleeding dead body underneath, in cartoon style.' Edit: It still blocks this request.
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- thrdbndndn 1y agoI'm more bothered by the fact that this reference image is clearly a well-made piece of digital art by some artist. We all know the questionable nature of AI/LLM models, but people in the field usually at least try to avoid directly using other people's copyrighted material in documentation. I'm not even talking about legality here. It just feels morally wrong to so blatantly use someone else's artwork like this.
- raincole 1y agoThe reference is AI-generated too. This comment shows how people are susceptible to our existing bias.
- kouteiheika 1y agoMy favorite (or should I say, anti-favorite?) is calling real artists' art AI, which I'm starting to see more and more of, and I've already seen a couple of artists rage-quit social media because of the anti-AI crowd's abuse.
- dbish 1y agoNano banana is great. Been using it for creating coloring books based off photos for my son and friends’ kids: https://github.com/dbish/bespoke-books-ai-example https://github.com/dbish/bespoke-books-ai-example Does a pretty good job (most of the time) of sticking to the black and white coloring book style while still bringing in enough detail to recognize the original photo in the output.
- barbs 1y agoBytedance's Seedream seems to be giving it a run for its money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdEn3aWHpO8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdEn3aWHpO8
- vunderba 1y agoSeedream 4 is yet another phenomenal Chinese model. On my comparison site it's currently ranked #1 scoring 9 out of 12. Nano-Banana trails at 7 out of 12. https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing
- 3vidence 1y agoIn case 5: Photos of Yourself in Different Eras The output just looks like a clearly different person. Its difficult to production-ize things that are inconsistent.
- throwaway2037 1y agoDoes anyone else cringe when they see so many examples of sexualised young women? Literally, Case 1/B has a women lifting up her skirt to reveal her underwear. For an otherwise very impressive model, you are spoiling the PR with this kind of immature content. Sheesh. I guess that confirms it: I am a old grumpy man! I count 26 examples with young women, and 9 examples with men. The only thing missing was "Lena": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
- shermantanktop 1y agoMy first reaction was the same, before I even knew what these demos represented. And of course I too am a grumpy old man.
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- krapp 1y agoI mean, what do you think the most common application of AI image generation is going to be?
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- yomismoaqui 1y agoSex drives technology (even if we don't like it) VHS, online payments, video streaming... As the old song say it "the internet is porn"
- ants_everywhere 1y agowait until you learn what prehistoric sculptors spent their time carving I read your comment before checking the site and then I saw case one was a child followed by a sexy maid and I thought "oh no dear god" before I realized they weren't combining them into a single image.
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- jaequery 1y agowow. RIP midjourney.
- rimmontrieu 1y agoImpressive examples but for GenAI it always comes down to the fact that you have to cherry pick the best result after so many fail attempts. Right now, it feels like they're pushing the narrative that ExpectedOutput = LLM(Prompt, Input) when it's actually ExpectedOutput = LLM(Prompt, Input) * Takes where Takes can vary from 1 to 100 or more
- vunderba 1y agoThat's why I always record the number of rolls it takes to get to an acceptable result on my GenAI Comparison site for each model - it's a broad metric indicating how much you have to fight to steer the model in the right direction.
- raincole 1y agoML researchers have been used Top-5 accuracy for a quite long time, especially when it comes to computer vision. Of course it's a ridiculous index in most use cases (like in self-driving car. Your 4th guess is that you need to brake? Cool...). But somehow people in ML normalized it.
- antiraza 1y agoWhy is that a bad thing, or even a non-expected thing? If you pick up a paintbrush, you don't always nail each stroke on the canvas -- just because it's programmatic doesn't mean it should be like a calculator. LLMs and image generators are cross pollinating human language and human visual information -- both really fuzzy mediums. I think learning how to 'use this instrument' and 'finding the perfect brush stroke' are part of how they are supposed to work (at least in their current form). I also don't know that just because they are showing good outputs from the inputs that this is framing the narrative as one-and-done... I think the rest of the owl is kind in of implied.
- qgin 1y agoDoes the Nano Banana naming imply the existence of Regular Banana or even Mega Banana?
- tasseff 1y agoIt implies the existence of an inverse gigabanana.
- jacobjjacob 1y agoDoes the first example really need to be some softcore weeb p*rn?
- muzani 1y agoYeah, back when I did image processing in university, we used real playboy models.
- djmips 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
- djmips 1y agowell they censored it for your sensitive eyes. happy?
- jacobjjacob 1y agoYes, I think it was the right call if they want the post to be taken seriously by a broad audience.
- HeartStrings 1y agoNano banana is actually a world model. It generates an entire world, then shows you the frame you need.
- Remdo 1y agoI didn't try it but I've seen really good results, is some innovation going on under the hood that we don't know? Is the technology the same of similar models? I can't find technical info on the internet
- _def 1y agoThis is gonna be a golden age for creative prototyping and memes, and absolutely horrible for information quality and trustworthiness of content.
- Giorgi 1y agoThese actually look awesome, wonder if it can actually create nice isometric graphics for games
- twaldecker 1y agoOne thing that couldn't be done is transparent background. The model just generates the pattern in the background. Not real alpha channel transparency. You can even see artifacts in the pattern.
- lifthrasiir 1y agoYeah, mangled checkerboard patterns are common when prompted to "remove" the background. It can be worked around by generating multiple images with only the background color varying (e.g. black and white) and reconstructing the alpha channel from their difference, as the model generally prefers to just copy and paste when no other prompts override that preference.
- filoeleven 1y ago“Just do more manual work and waste even more energy so you can take yet another manual step and finally get what you wanted.” A real time-saver, that.
- lifthrasiir 1y agoDepends on the actual usage, of course. It is indeed not good when you are doing quick editing.
- zahlman 1y agoThe training data is presumably full of examples of people using the pattern to indicate transparency (and explaining that they do so — like the input for 50!), and much less of people actually creating such images (if the training data even preserves the alpha channel in the first place). I think a bigger problem is the "artifacts" you describe (worse than that sounds to me).
- voidUpdate 1y agoWell it's good to see they are showcasing examples where the model really fails too. - The second one in case 2 doesn't look anything like the reference map - The face in case 5 changes completely despite the model being instructed to not do that - Case 8 ignores the provided pose reference - Case 9 changes the car positions - Case 16 labels the tricuspid in the wrong place and I have no idea what a "mittic" is - Case 27 shows the usual "models can't do text" though I'm not holding that against it too much - Same with case 29, as well as the text that is readable not relating to the parts of the image it is referencing - Case 33 just generated a generic football ground - Case 37 has nonsensical labellings ("Define Jawline" attached to the eye) - Case 58 has the usual "models don't understand what a wireframe is", but again I'm not holding that against it too much Super nice to see how honest they are about the capabilities!
- lm28469 1y ago47 is also very questionable 48 is impossible to do in a way that is accurate and meaningful
- zahlman 1y ago> - Case 16 labels the tricuspid in the wrong place and I have no idea what a "mittic" is > - Case 27 shows the usual "models can't do text" though I'm not holding that against it too much 16 makes it seem like it can "do text" — almost, if we don't care what it says. But it looks very crisp until you notice the "Pul??nary Artereys". I'd say the bigger problem with 27 is that asking to add a watermark also took the scroll out of the woman's hands. (While I'm looking, 28 has a lot of things wrong with it on closer inspection. I said 26 originally because I randomly woke up in the middle of the night for this and apparently I don't know which way I'm scrolling.)
- voidUpdate 1y agoEDIT: Yeah, on closer inspection, 28 is definitely a bit screwy. I wasn't clicking on the images themselves to view the enlarged ones, and from the preview I didn't see anything that immediately jumped out at me. I have no idea what that line at the bottom is meant to represent! Also you're right, I didn't notice the scroll had gone, though on another inspection, it's also removed the original prompter's watermark
- mohsen1 1y agoI'm furnishing a new apartment and Nano Banana has been super useful for placing furniture I want to purchase in rooms to make a judgment if things will work for us or not. Take a picture of the room, feed Nano Banana with that picture and the product picture and ask it to place it in the right location. It can even imagine things at night or even add lamps with lights on. Super useful!
- mmmnnn 1y agobest post ever for me. thanks for sharing.
- temp0826 1y agoSo it seems like image generation/deepfake proliferation is pretty inevitable. I imagine we can't trust any image anymore (for e.g. identification verification purposes) unless it is done in person or otherwise notarized somehow. Is there a way (NFT-ish?) to "tag"/sign an image to say it was taken by an actual camera?
- lifthrasiir 1y agoSee for example: https://c2pa.org/ https://c2pa.org/
- jstanley 1y agoBut how do you check that it was actually taken by a camera and not just tagged as such? Secondly, even if you solve that, how do you know it's not a photograph of an AI-generated scene? I think this is very obviously not the right approach.
- temp0826 1y agoI guess both the camera and the image need keys. (But really I have no idea this stuff is out of my realm!)
- kertoip_1 1y agoI theory you could install some kind of TPM-like device to every hardware that signs the data with key generated by manufacturer. Should be designed in such a way that it is very easy to break it when trying to tamper with it
- robbomacrae 1y agoI tried pushing this 5 years ago when at Apple but got nowhere. IMHO only the OEM’s can achieve this.
- rane 1y agoIn the AI image generation scene, is there anything solid yet in the way of generating vector illustrations for apps?
- smusamashah 1y agoIt can print code output as image as well. I don't think it will work for complex logic though. https://x.com/smusamashah/status/1961081534661685392 https://x.com/smusamashah/status/1961081534661685392
- tempodox 1y agoCute. I love the “Not backed by [Y]” badge in one of the source images, sweet irony of being on HN’s front page. Has anybody ever connected a 3D printer to such a machine’s output? Some of the action figures should definitely be 3D-printed.
- Jackson__ 1y agoI wish open source models would go this route of quality. Instead, every single release since and including flux dev have had some of the worst AI look I've seen so far. Sure these models might produce less mangled bodies, but in terms of actual aesthetics they lack behind even SD1.5 while needing >10x the amount of parameters.
- darepublic 1y agoAm I wrong to think they have Google photos to thank for this
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- aussiegreenie 1y agoI am not very good with graphics. Yesterday, I used nano Banana to create an image for the front cover of a report. It took about 5 minutes. Normally, I would have spent at least an hour and still would not have gotten as good an image. The Gemini models save me about an hour a day.
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