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Re: Nano Banana Pro

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The interesting tidbit here is SynthID. While a good first step, it doesn't solve the problem of AI generated content NOT having any kind of watermark. So we can prove that something WITH the ID is AI generated but we can't prove that something without one ISN'T AI generated. Like it would be nice if all photo and video generated by the big players would have some kind of standardized identifier on them - but now you…

SynthID has been in use for over 2 years.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

#112

The interesting tidbit here is SynthID. While a good first step, it doesn't solve the problem of AI generated content NOT having any kind of watermark. So we can prove that something WITH the ID is AI generated but we can't prove that something without one ISN'T AI generated. Like it would be nice if all photo and video generated by the big players would have some kind of standardized identifier on them - but now you…

Some days it feels like I'm the only hacker left who doesn't want government mandated watermarking in creative tools. Were politicians 20 years ago as overreative they'd have demanded Photoshop leave a trace on anything it edited. The amount of moral panic is off the charts. It's still a computer, and we still shouldn't trust everything we see. The fundamentals haven't changed.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

#113

Google needs to pace themselves. AI studio, Antigravity, Banana, Banana Pro, Grape Ultra, Gemini 3, etc. This information overload don't do them any good whatsoever.

Why? They're mostly different markets. Most people using Nano Banana Pro aren't using Antigravity.

A cluster of launches reinforces the idea that Google is growing and leading in a bunch of areas.

In other words, if it's having so many successes it feels like overload, that's an excellent narrative. It's not like it's going to prevent people from using the tools.

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#114
Just last night I was using Gemini "Fast" to test its output for a unique image we would have used in some consumer research if there had been a good stock image back in the day. I have been testing this prompt since the early days of AI images. The improvement in quality has been pretty remarkable for the same prompt. Composition across this time has been consistent. What I initially thought was "good enough" now is... fantastic. Just so many little details got more life-like w/ each new generation. Funnily enough, our images must be 3:2 aspect ratio. I kept asking GFast to change its square Fast output to 3:2. It kept saying it would, but each image was square or nearly square. GFast in the end was very apologetic, and said it would alert about this issue. Today I read that GPro does aspect ratios. Tried the same prompt again burning up some "Thinking" credits, and got another fantastically life-like image in 3:2. We have a new project coming up. We have relied entirely on stock or in some cases custom shot images to date. Now, apart from the time needed to get the prompts right whilst meeting with the client, I cannot see how stock or custom images can compete. I mean the GPro images -- again which is very specific to an unusual prompt -- is just "Wow". Want to emphasize again -- we are looking for specific details that many would not. So the thoughts above are specific to this. Still, while many faults can be found with AI, Nano Banana is certainly proven itself to me.

edit: I was thinking about this, and am not sure I even saw Pro3 as my image option last night. Today it was clearly there.

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#115

I tried the studio ghibli prompt on a photo my me and my wife in Japan and it was... not good. It looked more like a hand drawn sketch made with colored pencils, but none of the colors were correct. Everything was a weird shade of yellow/brown. This has been an oddly difficult benchmark for Gemini's NB models. Googles images models have always been pretty bad at the studio ghibli prompt, but I'm shocked at how poorly…

You might try it again with style transfer: 1 image of style to apply to 1 target image

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I tried this in AI studio just now with nano banana. Results: https://imgur.com/a/9II0Aip The white house was the original (random photo from Google). The prompt was "What paint color would look nice? Paint the house."

Guess they ran out of paint - notice the upper window.

Oops. Original link wasn't using the Pro version. Edited the comment with an updated link.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried this in AI studio just now with nano banana. Results: https://imgur.com/a/9II0Aip The white house was the original (random photo from Google). The prompt was "What paint color would look nice? Paint the house."

> (random photo from Google) Careful with that kind of thing. Here, it mostly poisons your test, because that exact photo probably exists in the underlying training data and the trained network will be more or less optimized on working with it. It's really the same consideration you'd want to make when testing classifiers or other ML techs 10 years ago. Most people taking to a task like this will be using an original…

Yea, the base image was the first google image result for the search term "house". So definitely in the training set.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

#118

Google needs to pace themselves. AI studio, Antigravity, Banana, Banana Pro, Grape Ultra, Gemini 3, etc. This information overload don't do them any good whatsoever.

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Re: Nano Banana Pro

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If there was a standardized identifier, there would be software dedicated to just removing it. I don't see how it would defeat the cat and mouse game.

I don't think it will be easy to just remove it. It's built into the image and thus won't be the same every time. Plus, any service good at reverse-image search (like Google) can basically apply that to determine whether they generated it. There will always be a way to defeat anything, but I don't see why this won't work for like 90% of cases.

> I don't think it will be easy to just remove it.

Always has been so far. You add noise until the signal gets swamped. In order to remain imperceptible it's a tiny signal, so it's easy to swamp.

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