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Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by Revisional_Sin » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 5:58 AM UTC

UltraSane wrote: post #408

atleastoptimal wrote: post #384

I can imagine an automated blackmail bot that scrapes image, video, voice samples from anyone with the most meagre online presence, which then creates high resolution videos of that person doing the most horrid acts, then threatening to share those videos with that person's family, friends and business contacts unless they are paid $5000 in a cryptocurrency to an anonymous address. And further, I can imagine some per…

But these new amazing AI image generators lets you just say "It wasn't me, it is an AI fake". Long term they will seriously devalue blackmail material. I read a scifi novel where they invented a wormhole that only light could pass through but it could be used as a camera that could go anywhere and eventually anytime and there was absolutely no way to block it. So some people adapted to this fact by not wearing clothe…

> So some people adapted to this fact by not wearing clothes anymore.

Erm... What?

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by Revisional_Sin » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 6:00 AM UTC

mock-possum wrote: post #49

Mistletoe wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://medium.com/data-science-in-your-pocket/what-is-googl... For people like me that don’t know what nano-banana is.

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

Slop, slop everywhere.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by wiz21c » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 6:09 AM UTC

ethbr1 wrote: post #388

drmath wrote: post #386

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even in the just-photoshop-not-ai days product photos had become pretty unreliable as a means of understanding what you're buying. Of course it's much worse now.

Note: Please understand that monitor may color different. If image does not match product received then kindly your monitor calibration. Seller not responsible. /ebay&amazon

look at the bottom of the sleeves, they don't match. the bottom of the jacket doesn't match either.

I didn't see it at first sight but it certainly is not the same jacket. If you use that as an advertisement, people can sue you for lying about the product.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by dsrtslnd23 » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 6:17 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #359

There is one thing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image can do that no other edit model can do: incorporate multiple images simultaneously without shenanigans due to its multimodality, e.g. for Flux Kontext, if you want to "put the person in the first image into the second image", you have to concatenate them pre-VAE which can be unwieldly, but this model doesn't have that issue. You can even incorporate more than two images, but…

gpt-image-1 works with multiple input images. I even had good success with >4 images.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by Viaya » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 6:19 AM UTC

fariszr wrote: 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

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Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by Viaya » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 6:20 AM UTC

fariszr wrote: 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

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Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by mooncakes_ooohh » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 6:32 AM UTC

Viaya wrote: post #426

fariszr wrote: 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

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Be gone scammer

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by bjackman » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 6:41 AM UTC

bibabaloo wrote: post #369

bjackman wrote: post #233

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I don't really understand the point of this usecase. Like, can't you also imagine what the photos might look like without the damage? Same with AI upscaling in phone cameras... if I want a hypothetical idea of what something in the distance might look like, I can just... imagine it? I think we will eventually have AI based tools that are just doing what a skilled human user would do in Photoshop, via tool-use. This w…

Why take photos at all if you can just imagine them?

Well, that goes to the heart of my point. I take pictures because I value how literal they are. I enjoy the fact that they directly capture the arrangement of light in the moment I took them. That

So yeah, if I'm gonna then upscale them or "repair" them using generative AI, then it's a bit pointless to take them in the first place.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by vineyardmike » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 6:44 AM UTC

hapticmonkey wrote: post #347

fariszr wrote: 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

Before AI, people complained that Google was taking world class engineering talent and using it for little more than selling people ads. But look at that example. With this new frontier of AI, that world class engineering talent can finally be put to use…for product placement. We’ve come so far.

> finally be put to use…for product placement.

Did you think that Google would just casually allow their business to be disrupted without using the technology to improve the business and also protecting their revenue?

Both Meta and Google have indicated that they see Generative AI as a way to vertically integrate within the ad space, disrupting marketing teams, copyrighters, and other jobs who monitor or improve ad performance.

Also FWIW, I would suspect that the majority of Google engineers don't work on an ad system, and probably don't even work on a profitable product line.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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Post by IanCal » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 7:01 AM UTC

matsemann wrote: post #92

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.

Google have been terrible at every single rollout I’ve ever seen them do.

I see an announcement and it’s a waitlist. It says I can use it right now and I get a 404, or a waitlist, or it doesn’t work in my country. With the AI stuff more often it takes me to a place where I can do something but not what they say, and have zero information about whether I’m using the new thing or not.

Like this is flash image preview, but I have flash which is also a thing so is it the new one or not? The ui hasn’t changed but now it can do pictures so has my flash model moved from a GA model to a preview one? Probably! Or maybe it gets routed? Who knows!