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Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Use it on fal.ai

Since API currently is not working (seems rate limits not set for Image Generation yet) I tried on fal. Definitely inferior to results I see on AI Studio and image generation time is 6s on AI Studio vs 30 seconds on Fal.AI

> Definitely inferior to results

Quality or latency?

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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In other words, this is the gpt 4 moment for image editing models. Gpt4 isn't "fundamentally different" from gpt3.5. It's just better. That's the exact point the parent commenter was trying to make.

did you see the generated pic demis posted on X? it looks like slop from 2 years ago. https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1960355658059891018

I've tested it on Google AI Studio since it's available to me (which is just a few hours so take it with a grain of salt). The prompt comprehension is uncannily good.

My test is going to https://unsplash.com/s/photos/random and pick two random images, send them both and "integrate the subject from the second image into the first image" as the prompt. I think Gemini 2.5 is doing far better than ChatGPT (admittedly ChatGPT was the trailblazer on this path). FluxKontext seems unable to do that at all. Not sure if I were using it wrong, but it always only considers one image at a time for me.

Edit: Honestly it might not be the 'gpt4 moment." It's better at combining multiple images, but now I don't think it's better at understanding elaborated text prompt than ChatGPT.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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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?

The hype is about image editing, not pure text-to-image. Upload an input image, say what you want changed, get the output. That's the idea. Much better preservation of characters and objects.

I tested it against Flux Pro Kontext (also image editing) and while it's a very different style and approach I overall like Flux better. More focus on image consistency, adjusts the lighting correctly, fixes contradictions in the image.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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I guess it was something like [0] The Nigerian prince is now a deep fake Elon but the concept is the same. You need to send some money to get way more back. [0]: https://www.ncsc.admin.ch/ncsc/en/home/aktuell/im-fokus/2023...

hm, but isn't it wild thinking that elon is talking to you and asking you for 15k , like bro has the money of his lifetime, why would he ask you? It doesn't make that much sense idk

I remember watching the SpaceX channel on youtube, which isn't a legit source. AI Elon basically says "I want to help make bitcoin more popular, let me show you how easy it it to transfer money around with btc. Send my $X and I'll send you back $2X! It's very inline with a typical elon message (I'll give you 1 million to vote R), it's on a channel called SpaceX. It's pretty believable.

Granted I played Runescape and EvE as a kid, so any double-isk scams are immediate redflags.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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facebook isn't going to implement detection though. Many (if not most) of the viral pictures are AI-generated. and facebook is incentivized to let their users get fooled to generate endless scrolling

Along with those being fooled there are many comments saying this is fake, AI trash and etc. That portion of the commenters are teaching the ignorant and soon no one will believe what they see on the Internet as real.

> soon no one will believe what they see on the Internet as real.

Now is that so bad?

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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I could see this destroying a lot of jobs like photography, editing, marketing, etc.

These jobs won't go away. Power tools didn't destroy carpentry. Computers didn't destroy math. But workers who don't embrace these new tools will probably get left behind by those who do.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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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…

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.

I've been waiting for that, too. But I'm also not interesting in feeding my entire extended family's visual history into Google for it to monetize. It's wrong for me to violate their privacy that way, and also creepy to me.

Am I correct to worry that any pictures I send into this system will be used for "training?" Is my concern overblown, or should I keep waiting for AI on local hardware to get better?

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Wow I hate the ‘voice’ in that article - big if true though.

I suspect the "voice" is a language model with a bad system prompt. (Possibly the author's own words run through an LLM, to be charitable.)

It's medium.com. YouTube comments quality text packaged as clickbait articles for some revenue share. It was always slop, even without LLMs. Do they even bother with paying human authors now or is the entire site just generated? That would probably be cheaper and improve quality.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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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

Why is it called nano banana?

I'm pretty sure it's because an image of a banana under a microscope generated by the model went super viral
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