Live data from Hacker News

Nano Banana 2 Lite

deepmind.google

81–90 of 214 posts

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

#81
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

[flagged]

Honestly, given the dangerously unmitigated power of Claude Mythos, we should really look into arresting the people who have failed to ask Claude to cure cancer already.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

#83

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.

AirBnB folks are doing the same.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

#84
post #19

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.

It seems the solution could be quite simple.

Basically you buy/rent whatever was advertised, and if reality doesn't match, welp thats a defect the seller/landlord must fix at their own expense.

Room shows a vent but in reality there isn't one? Well, the seller has to install it or cover the costs of what an installation would cost.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

#85
post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

Quite a few times I've seen permanent light fixtures that don't exist, vents that don't exist, room sizes that are obviously implied to be much larger than reality (e.g. they show a full-size bed, but there's only like 4 feet of space in that location), etc. I don't particularly mind fake furniture, but if it's very much not to scale I think it's pushing "probably fraud". And when permanent fixtures are fabricated, "…

Oh, and little touches like an ugly fence being replaced by a sweeping view of a beach or a mountain range.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

#86
post #69

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.

Instead of fighting the use of AI for home interior picture, it might be more useful to have an AI that can correct the fabricated images. If the listing includes room sizes, an AI should be able to give you more realistic images. Maybe a browser plugin that makes all content honest?

Why would that be more useful than fighting this fraud? Surely the original images would be more realistic than one passed through AI two times.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

#87

Where is the pelican on bicycle test results?

Because for imagegen models it'd be a meaningless benchmark. It's designed to test codegen models for their UI/UX capabilities.

So the image model's benchmark is to generate an image with the corresponding SVG sources.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

#88
post #57

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.

Announcers get very touchy with listings data, so even compiling listings from multiple sources is hard without getting cease-and-desisted. Then, realtors will certainly flood competing announcements and post fake reviews. It's an aggressive market.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

#89
That's nice but it's on google's broken AI studio thing. I can't use half the stuff on there because it requires a Google One account. Which I'm ineligible for because I'm on a workspace account. Can I switch? No, because Google One doesn't support own domains.

So I need to run (AND PAY!) two accounts to have both a nice email address and Banana? Starting to think the correct number of paid google accounts here is zero.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

#90
post #56

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?

The difference is you'll get caught a luddite and hear you're opposing progress if you try to get in the way of AI doing any and everything.
Post reply on HN