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Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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post #38

Very impressive. 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.

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the modern turing test:

am i getting scammed by a billionare or an AI billionaire?

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

#112
post #60

This is the gpt 4 moment for image editing models. Nano banana aka gemini 2.5 flash is insanely good. It made a 171 elo point jump in lmarena! Just search nano banana on Twitter to see the crazy results. An example. https://x.com/D_studioproject/status/1958019251178267111

Alarming hands on the third one: it can't decide which way they're facing. But Gemini didn't introduce that, it's there in the base image.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

#113
post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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These SpaceX scams are rampant on youtube and highly, highly lucrative. It’s crazy and you have to be very vigilant, as whatever is promised lines up with Elon’s MO.

it requires zero vigilance if you dont play the game.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

#114
post #60

This is the gpt 4 moment for image editing models. Nano banana aka gemini 2.5 flash is insanely good. It made a 171 elo point jump in lmarena! Just search nano banana on Twitter to see the crazy results. An example. https://x.com/D_studioproject/status/1958019251178267111

> This is the gpt 4 moment for image editing models.

No it's not.

We've had rich editing capabilities since gpt-image-1, this is just faster and looks better than the (endearingly? called) "piss filter".

Flux Kontext, SeedEdit, and Qwen Edit are all also image editing models that are robustly capable. Qwen Edit especially.

Flux Kontext and Qwen are also possible to fine tune and run locally.

Qwen (and its video gen sister Wan) are also Apache licensed. It's hard not to cheer Alibaba on given how open they are compared to their competitors.

We've left the days of Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney of "prompt-only" text to image generation.

It's also looking like tools like ComfyUI are less and less necessary as those capabilities are moving into the model layer itself.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

#115
post #38

Very impressive. 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.

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On the balance of probabilities it being a scam is vastly more likely than Elon actually wanting to contact you. Why would Elon need $15k in bitcoin?

It seems like money naturally flows from the gullible to the Machiavellian.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

#117

Half the time I ask Gemini to generate some image it claims it doesn't have the capability. And in general I've felt it's so hard to actually use the features Google announce? Like, a third of them is in one product, some in another which I can't use, and no idea what or where I should pay to get access. So confusing.

Yeah, in fact the website says "Try it in Gemini" and I'm not sure if I'm already trying it or not - if I choose Gemini 2.5 Flash in the regular Gemini UI, I'm using this?

I think not. Because at least in the aistudio there is a dedicated gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview model. So I am assuming it is not available in the standard gemini chat window.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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post #108
post #103

I don't get the hype. Tested it with the same prompts I used with Midjourney, and the results are worse than in Midjourney a year ago. What am I missing?

Hmm, I think the hype is mainly for image editing, not generating. Although note I haven't used it! How are you testing it?

I tested it with two prompts:

// In this one, Gemini doesn't understand what "cinematic" is

"A cinematic underwater shot of a turtle gracefully swimming in crystal-clear water [...]"

// In this one, the reflection in the water in the background has different buildings

"A modern city where raindrops fall upward into the clouds instead of down, pedestrians calmly walking [...]"

Midjourney created both perfectly.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

#119
post #38

Very impressive. 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.

The comments are probably AI-generated too, because a site that seems to have lots of other people on it is more appealing than an empty wasteland

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

#120

I digitised our family photos but a lot of them were damaged (shifted colours, spills, fingerprints on film, spots) that are difficult to correct for so many images. I've been waiting for image gen to catch up enough to be able to repair them all in bulk without changing details, especially faces. This looks very good at restoring images without altering details or adding them where they are missing, so it might fina…

All of the defects you have listed can be automatically fixed by using a film scanner with ICE and a software that automatically performs the scan and the restoration like Vuescan. Feeding hundreds (thousands?) of photos to an experimental proprietary cloud AI that will give you back subpar compressed pictures with who knows how many strange artifacts seems unnecessary

I scanned everything into 48-bit RAW and treat those as the originals, including the IR scan for ICE and a lower quality scan of the metadata. The problem is sharing them - important images I manually repair and export as JPEG which is time consuming (15-30 minutes per image, there are about 14000 total) so if its "generic family gathering picture #8228" I would rather let AI repair it, assuming it doesn't butcher faces and other important details. Until then I made a script that exports the raws with basic cropping and colour correction but it can't fix the colours which is the biggest issue.
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