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Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by scottlamb »

woobar wrote: post #166
scottlamb wrote: post #67

The rollout doesn't seem to have reached my userid yet. How successful are people at getting these things to actually produce useful images? I was trying recently with the (non-Pro) Nano Banana to see what the fuss was about. As a test case, I tried to get it to make a diagram of a zipper merge (in driving), using numbered arrows to indicate what the first, second, third, etc. cars should do. I had trouble reliably g…

Nano Banana is focused on editing. But the Pro version handles your prompt much better. First image is Pro, second is 2.5 https://imgur.com/a/3PDUIQP

Wow, that top image is actually quite good! Interestingly, I just got into Pro and got a worse result than yours. https://imgur.com/a/ENNk68B ... and it really seems to just vary by attempt even with the exact same prompt.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by rcruzeiro »

akersten wrote: post #112
theoldgreybeard wrote: post #43

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.

Try photocopying some US dollar bills.

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Post by gandreani »

evrenesat wrote: post #127
grantpitt wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh, can you share a link? I tried here: https://gemini.google.com/share/e753745dfc5d

https://gemini.google.com/share/79fe1a38e440

Maybe somewhere in the original comment it would have been fair to mention you can barely see the house in the original photo. This is actually a hilarious complaint

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Post by jamil7 »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #165
evrenesat wrote: post #73

I've tried to repaint the exterior of my house. More than 20 times with very detailed prompts. I even tried to optimize it with Claude. No matter what, every time it added one, two or three extra windows to the same wall.

I don't know what it is with Gemini (and even other models) but I swear they must be doing some kind of active load-dependant quanitization or a/b/c/d testing behind the scenes, because sometimes the model is stellar and hitting everything, and other times it's tripping all over itself. The most effective fix I have found is that when the model is acting dumb, just turn it off and come back in the few hours to a new…

Yeah I think they all shed under heavy load as part of some scaling strategy.

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Post by xnx »

jasonjmcghee wrote: post #133
xnx wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nano Banana is more of an image editing model, which probably has more broad use cases for non-generative applications: interior decorating, architecture, picking wardrobes, etc.

Yeah... For some reason none of these are use cases in my day to day life. That said, I also don't open Photoshop very often. And maybe that's what this is meant to replace.

Not for everyone everyday, but a good tool to have in the toolbox. I recently was very easily able to mock up what a certain Christmas decoration would look like on the house. By next year, I'm sure that feature will be part of the product page.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by losvedir »

theoldgreybeard wrote: post #43

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…

I'm sure Apple will roll something out in the coming years. Now that just anyone can easily AI themselves into a picture in front of the Eiffel tower, they'll want a feature that will let their users prove that they _really_ took that photo in front of the Eiffel tower (since to a lot of people sharing that you're on a Paris vacation is the point, more than the particular photo).

I bet it will be called "Real Photos" or something like that, and the pictures will be signed by the camera hardware. Then iMessage will put a special border around it or something, so that when people share the photos with other Apple users they can prove that it was a real photo taken with their phone's camera.

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Post by swyx »

minimaxir wrote: post #149

I...worked on the detailed Nano Banana prompt engineering analysis for months ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917875 )...and...Google just...Google released a new version. Nano Banana Pro should work with my gemimg package ( https://github.com/minimaxir/gemimg ) without pushing a new version by passing: g = GemImg(model="gemini-3-pro-image-preview") I'll add the new output resolutions and other features ASAP…

btw you should get on their Trusted Testers program, they do give early heads up

GDM folks, get Max on!

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by spyspy »

minimaxir wrote: post #149

I...worked on the detailed Nano Banana prompt engineering analysis for months ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917875 )...and...Google just...Google released a new version. Nano Banana Pro should work with my gemimg package ( https://github.com/minimaxir/gemimg ) without pushing a new version by passing: g = GemImg(model="gemini-3-pro-image-preview") I'll add the new output resolutions and other features ASAP…

This reminds me of the journalist working for months on uncovering Trump's dirty business just for Trump himself to admit the entire thing in a tweet.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by KalMann »

scottlamb wrote: post #67

The rollout doesn't seem to have reached my userid yet. How successful are people at getting these things to actually produce useful images? I was trying recently with the (non-Pro) Nano Banana to see what the fuss was about. As a test case, I tried to get it to make a diagram of a zipper merge (in driving), using numbered arrows to indicate what the first, second, third, etc. cars should do. I had trouble reliably g…

I'd try a some more if I were you. I saw an example of generated infographic that was greatly improved over anything I've seen an image generator do before. What you desire seems in the realm of possibility.
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