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Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by lelandfe »

strulovich wrote: post #48
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)

Also NYC. A classic was mounting a bright light outside a window so it appears as “sun-drenched” as the description claimed.

(Unrelated, my favorite one was getting to the apartment and learning the “bedroom” was a flex wall in the kitchen)

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by dgacmu »

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.

Accepting 100% that it should be in some way deemed unacceptable (socially or legally) to fake what an apartment actually looks like, I did find using an image model really helpful in making design choices for my bathroom remodel. Mostly about whether to tile certain things where we couldn't quite visualize ourselves what the effect on the entire space would be.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by Ajedi32 »

psygn89 wrote: post #19
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.

I think that should be illegal and misrepresenting. Lots of gray area with AI usage.

Wouldn't that fall under existing false advertising laws, if you're putting fake/altered images in the listing?

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by zamadatix »

strulovich wrote: post #48
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)

AI has very uniquely made creating these faked/impossible layout images one of the cheapest & easiest things you can do at the moment, even if it didn't introduce the concept. Simultaneously, AI has had very little cost reduction impact on much else. This change in relative balance is how AI has created the new version of the problem and it's not apparent how this imbalance was always bound to occur without AI.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by hbardigital »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #42
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?

Haven't experienced any errors related to children. Will get the random copyright error though.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by hbn »

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.

There needs to be lawsuits over stuff like that. I don't get why people accept blatant false advertising just cause the tech used to do it is new. They may as well be uploading pictures of a real, nicer apartment with a similar layout. What's the difference?

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by bilsbie »

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.

Honestly a great start up would be a review system for house listings.

Users can rate how accurate the description was, the real life flaws and even upload their own photos.

Side note: last time I looked for a house I really wasted 95% of my time because every house had one unique major flaw that would have made me not even bother going to see it.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by esafak »

t1234s wrote: post #24

NB2 is an impressive tool. Camera File -> Heavy Changes in NB2 -> Final Tweaks in Photoshop -> Production Image

Can it do that with high fidelity to the source; e.g., denoise and restore?

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by HumblyTossed »

Ajedi32 wrote: post #53
psygn89 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that should be illegal and misrepresenting. Lots of gray area with AI usage.

Wouldn't that fall under existing false advertising laws, if you're putting fake/altered images in the listing?

It should, I would assume. But for some reason, it seems nobody is enforcing consumer protections like they used to.

Pretty soon they'll take the stickers off mowers warning people to not put their hand under it while it's running.

The world isn't in a good place...

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