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Re: Nano Banana Pro

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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.

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Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by TheAceOfHearts »

You can try it out for free on LMArena [0]: New Chat -> Battle dropdown -> Direct Chat -> Click on Generate Image in the chat box -> Click dropdown from hunyuan-image-3.0 -> gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro).

I've only managed to get a few prompts to go through, if it takes longer than 30 seconds it seems to just time out. Image quality seems to vary wildly; the first image I tried looked really good but then I tried to refresh a few times and it kept getting worse.

[0] lmarena.ai/

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Post by pigpop »

losvedir wrote: post #176
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"…

Does anyone other than you actually care about your vacation photos?

There used to be a joke about people who did slideshows (on an actual slide projector) of their vacation photos at parties.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by Fiveplus »

What can nano-banana do that chatGPT made images can't? Or is it only better for image editing from what I can gather from these comments so far. I haven't used it so genuinely curious.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by OtherShrezzing »

arresin wrote: post #197
simonw wrote: post #193

This thing's ability to produce entire infographics from a short prompt is really impressive, especially since it can run extra Google searches first. I tried this prompt: Infographic explaining how the Datasette open source project works Here's the result: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/20/nano-banana-pro/#creat...

Is the infographic accurate in terms of the way datasette wprks?

It’s subtly incorrect. R/w permissions for example are described incorrectly on some nodes.

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Post by krisoft »

shevy-java wrote: post #102
echelon wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your use case doesn't even make sense. What customers are clamoring for that feature? I doubt any paying customer in the market for (that product) cares. If the law cares, the law has tools to inquire. All of this is trivially easy to circumvent ceremony. Google is doing this to deflect litigation and to preserve their brand in the face of negative press. They'll do this (1) as long as they're the market leader, (2)…

> What customers are clamoring for that feature? If the law cares, the law has tools to inquire. How can they distinguish from real people exploited to AI models autogenerating everything? I mean right now this is possible, largely because a lot of the AI videos have shortcomings. But imagine in 5 years from now on ...

> How can they distinguish from real people exploited to AI models autogenerating everything?

The people who care don't consume content which even just plausibly looks like real people exploited. They wouldn't consume the content even if you pinky promised that the exploited looking people are not real people. Even if you digitally signed that promise.

The people who don't care don't care.

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Post by esafak »

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...

That is an interesting error actually. It happened because both orientations of the sword are visually plausible, but not abrupt transitions from one to the other; there needs to be physical continuity.

Here is a reproduction of the Matrix bullet time shot with and without pose guidance to illustrate the problem: https://youtu.be/iq5JaG53dho?t=1125

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Post by creata »

riskable wrote: post #68
myth_drannon wrote: post #32

Adobe's stock is down 50% from last year's peak. It's humbling and scary that entire industries with millions of jobs evaporate in a matter of few years.

On the contrary, it's encouraging to know that maliciously greedy companies like Adobe are getting screwed for being so malicious and greedy :thumbsup: I had second thoughts about this comment, but if I stopped typing in the middle of it, I would've had to pay a cancellation fee.

Adobe, for all their faults, can hardly be said to be more malicious or greedy than Google.

Adobe, at least, makes money by selling software. Google makes money by capturing eyeballs; only incidentally does anything they do benefit the user.

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Post by xnx »

vunderba wrote: post #155
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.

Definitely, but don't sleep on its generative capacities either. You can give it a image and instruct it "Use the attached image purely as a stylistic reference" and then proceed to use it as a regular generative model.

Indeed. Is Nano Banana now Google flagship image gen model (over Imagen 4)?

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Post by panarky »

losvedir wrote: post #176
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"…

> a real photo taken with their phone's camera

How "real" are iPhone photos? They're also computationally generated, not just the light that came through the lens.

Even without any other post-processing, iPhones generate gibberish text when attempting to sharpen blurry images, they delete actual textures and replace them with smooth, smeared surfaces that look like a watercolor or oil paintings, and combine data from multiple frames to give dogs five legs.

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