Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

Hope they get API issues resolved soon.

I have to say while I'm deeply impressed by these text to image models, there's a part of me that's also wary of their impact. Just look at the comments beneath the average Facebook post.

Without going into detail, basically the task boils down to, "generate exactly image 1, but replace object A with the object depicted in image 2."

Where image 2 is some front-facing generic version, ideally I want the model to place this object perfectly in the scene, replacing the existing object, that I have identified ideally exactly by being able to specify its position, but otherwise by just being able to describe very well what to do.

For models that can't accept multiple images, I've tried a variation where I put a blue box around the object that I want to replace, and paste the object that I want it to put there at the bottom of the image on its own.

I've tried some older models, and ChatGPT, also qwen-image last week, and just now, this one. They all fail at it. To be fair, this model got pretty damn close, it replaced the wrong object in the scene, but it was close to the right position, and the object was perfectly oriented and lit. But it was wrong. (Using the bounding box method.. it should have been able to identify exactly what I wanted to do. Instead it removed the bounding box and replaced a different object in a different but close-by position.)

Are there any models that have been specifically trained to be able to infill or replace specific locations in an image with reference to an example image? Or is this just like a really esoteric task?

So far all the in-filling models I've found are only based on text inputs.