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Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by visioninmyblood »

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…

yes they are pricey but the price will go down over time and then you can switch. vlm.run got access as early customers and are releasing it for free with unlimited generations(till they are bottlenecked by google). some results here combining image gen(Nano Banana pro) with video gen(Veo 3.1) in a single chat https://chat.vlm.run/c/1c726fab-04ef-47cc-923d-cb3b005d6262. This combined the synth generation of a person and made the puppet dance. Quite impressive

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Post by anilgulecha »

H1Supreme wrote: post #104

This is really impressive. As a former designer, I'm equally excited that people will be able to generate images like this with a prompt, and sad that there will be much less incentive for people to explore design / "photoshopping" as a craft or a career. At the end of the day, a tool is a tool, and the computer had the same effect on the creative industry when people started using them in place of illustrating by ha…

I feel you. Infact, IMO, SWE1 level coding industry seems to be a couple years lagging on this aspect.

The trouble is that learning fundamentals now is a large trough to go past, just the way grade 3-10 children learn their math fundamentals despite there being calculators. It's no longer "easy mode" in creative careers.

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Post by darkwater »

csallen wrote: post #188
darkwater wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's still a computer, and we still shouldn't trust everything we see. The fundamentals haven't changed. I think that by now it should be crystal clear to everyone that it matters a lot the sheer scale a new technology permits for $nefarious_intent. Knives (under a certain size) are not regulated. Guns are regulated in most countries. Atomic bombs are definitely regulated. They can all kill people if used badly, th…

I think we're overreacting. Digital fakes will proliferate, and we'll freak out bc it's new. But after a certain amount of time, we'll just get used to it and realize that the world goes on, and whatever major adverse effects actually aren't that difficult to deal with. Which is not the case with nuclear proliferation or things like that. The story of human history is newer generations freaking about progress and nov…

In general I concur but the adaptation doesn't come out of the blue or just only because people get used to it but also because countermeasures are taken, regulations are written and adjustments are made to reduce the negative impact. Also the hyperconnected society is still relatively new and I'm not sure we have adapted for it yet.

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Post by ashraymalhotra »

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…

Minor clarification, the cost for every input image is $0.0011, not $0.06.

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Post by visioninmyblood »

vunderba wrote: post #198
visioninmyblood wrote: post #192

Wow! I was able to combine Nano Banana Pro and Veo 3.1 video generation in a single chat and it produced great results. https://chat.vlm.run/c/38b99710-560c-4967-839b-4578a4146956 . Really cool model

Neat use-case, though the sword literally telescopically inverts itself at the beginning of the scene like a light saber where you would have expected it to be drawn from its scabbard. I'd be interested to see how Wan 2.2 First/Last frame handles those images though...

yeah sadly veo 3.1 has not caught up to the image generation capabilities. May be we need to work on how to make video generation more physically consistent. but the image generation results from banana pro are great.

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Post by dragonwriter »

aqme28 wrote: post #79
slashdev wrote: post #55

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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.

No, but model training technology is out in the open, so it will continue to be possible to train models and build model toolchains that just don't incorporate watermarking at all, which is what any motivated actor seeking to mislead will do; the only thing watermarking will do is train people to accept its absence as a sign of reliability, increasing the effectiveness of fakes by motivated bad actors.

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Post by Taek »

ashraymalhotra wrote: post #204
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…

Minor clarification, the cost for every input image is $0.0011, not $0.06.

I would consider that a major clarification
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