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Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by rsynnott »

phainopepla2 wrote: post #38
mvdtnz wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure if you're being serious but it should be illegal because they're producing images that are often not physically possible. At least if an agent stages an apartment with real furniture they are doing something a tenant really could do. But these AI images tend to change the physical dimensions of a room, use images of furniture that don't make sense dimensionally, shift the "natural" light of the room in a…

I think their last sentence is a pretty clear indicator that they were not being serious.

As with bitcoin fans before them, Poe's Law is in full effect with the AI boosters.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by IncreasePosts »

hbardigital wrote: post #21

The speed is definitely impressive. I'm seeing under 5 seconds per image vs ~30 seconds for base NB2. I built an app for my kids that generates illustrated stories for them with them as the characters. I wanted to prioritize likeness while still stylizing the illustrations. I tested a bunch of models but none seem to come close to maintaining likeness when stylized. I find the others generate generic looking characte…

I tried something like that but an error told me it couldn't do anything with children. Did that change?

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by echoangle »

ms7m wrote: post #27
torginus wrote: post #17

The first example of generating home interiors fills me with indescribable hatred. Recently real estate agents have taken to running every dilapidated unsellable apartment through these AI filters, and you have to scroll through a dozen of these Ikea-chic images of what the apartment presumably could look like, before you are allowed to see the horrors they are trying to peddle at insane prices.

And it's borderline fraud, I think I saw an apartment on Streeteasy where they were able to 'fit' an entire desk, drawers and a queen size bed, obviously these image models just scale these down to proportions that just don't exist in real life. the actual bedroom could only fit queen size bed ;(

How is that borderline, that’s just actual fraud.

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Post by darrylb42 »

torginus wrote: post #17

The first example of generating home interiors fills me with indescribable hatred. Recently real estate agents have taken to running every dilapidated unsellable apartment through these AI filters, and you have to scroll through a dozen of these Ikea-chic images of what the apartment presumably could look like, before you are allowed to see the horrors they are trying to peddle at insane prices.

Just having a good photographer is amazing. When my friend was selling their place I was amazed and how good the house looked in the listing. How big it looked, when I know it was not big. This was before AI filters were available. So not a new issue but certainly made worse and cheaper to do.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by JimsonYang »

Whats the use cases where cheaper and faster img models are key differentiators?

I mean 3 cents compared to 6 cents doesnt seem like much in my mind-unless youre running a consumer saas

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by Legend2440 »

cush wrote: post #8

I'm way behind in imagegen - only using it occasionally for roleplaying tokens, goofing around, and random personal assets. To me, this is nuts. It's able to create images in like 2 seconds... before with chatgpt it would take 30s-1m for the same quality image. I don't get the negative comments here

ChatGPT detail is a lot better though. You can do stuff like complex 6-panel comics that Nano Banana can't match.

Also a lot of the negative comments are from people who hate the very idea of AI art and want it to fail.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by strulovich »

torginus wrote: post #17

The first example of generating home interiors fills me with indescribable hatred. Recently real estate agents have taken to running every dilapidated unsellable apartment through these AI filters, and you have to scroll through a dozen of these Ikea-chic images of what the apartment presumably could look like, before you are allowed to see the horrors they are trying to peddle at insane prices.

Where I live (NYC) putting altered images like that has been the norm for more than a decade.

It’s just used to be more expensive to hire someone to do it for you.

The altered images always e free stirs the same bright walls and grey magazine style furniture.

AI is just making it cheaper, but this was bound to happen.

(Images altered this way do have a small watermark stating so)

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by mikert89 »

ianhawes wrote: post #20
mikert89 wrote: post #3

gemini is so far behind. starting to wonder if their strategy is launching the low cost alternative to image/text models. last release was 3.5 flash

Imagine saying Gemini is so far behind when Llama has unreleased max models from last year that are currently beat by quantized Qwen2.5 models.

People inside deep mind are using Claude code

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by Zambyte »

echelon wrote: post #23
minimaxir wrote: post #5

I received early access to test this model. (through work — Google still does not like me personally lol) It works as advertised here, and it does behave like a distilled Nano Banana 2 with respect to certain elements such as good text rendering, which Nano Banana 1 does much worse with. It is definitely not at the level of the base Nano Banana 2 of course particularly with highly-nuanced prompts. My main criticism i…

> Google still does not like me personally lol Please elaborate.

I read it as "Google is indifferent to me" rather than "Google specifically dislikes me", as a point of clarification that they didn't get access by being personally selected.
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