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Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by whiddershins »

Havoc wrote: post #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 ze…

shameless plug burlap will let you just use keys from gemini studio or openai and try stuff out without messing with the web interfaces. that's (one reason) i made it

https://www.burlap.app/download

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by dotancohen »

thewebguyd wrote: post #78
benjiro29 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it makes houses/apartment less likely to sell. When you see the idealized version, and then the reality, the impact is much bigger then just showing reality. Unless people prove me wrong, and they really fall for that... Its like we used to be flooded with fisheye lens pictures of homes, that made the rooms way bigger then reality. I noticed that this trend (on the immo that i follow for years) has heavily re…

When you do get the privilege of seeing the unit in person, yeah. This is obviously the case for most home sales. But there are plenty of rental markets where you can be forced to rent without seeing that exact unit first. Common in big complexes, where you might get shown a "similar unit" or in markets where rental vacancy is so low that if you don't apply & sign within hours, you aren't getting that apartment becau…

If the industry is currently so favourable to the landlord, then why would they need to alter images in the first place?

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by computerex »

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.

Llama was great for research and propelling the opensource community but they haven't been a serious competitor in a while. Whereas Google is one of the top 3 AI labs in America.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by diab0lic »

etdznots wrote: post #28
psygn89 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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I can’t tell through text if you’re being sarcastic or not. So I’ll add some context for fun. Ran into this a few weeks ago apartment shopping with a friend. AI images of multiple apartments had:

- Relocated the sink from the back counter to the kitchen island.

- Added outlets that didn’t exist.

- Displayed furniture layouts that were not possible in the actual space. That couch looks great in that spot, except when you explore further you realize it’s sitting right up against the master bedroom’s door.

To that last point, no stager would lay it out that way because anyone viewing the apartment would take them to task for you know… having to drag a couch out of the way to open their bedroom door. Staging layouts have always been more pretty than practical but AI staging regularly puts functionally DOA layouts on display.

As far as I’m concerned it’s disingenuous at best, and deception realistically. The process is broken while this slop is in there.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by janalsncm »

etdznots wrote: post #28
psygn89 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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As a rule of thumb, if it is just replacing staging, I don’t have an issue with it. A staged apartment also isn’t “real” so if the AI isn’t adding windows and outlets that don’t exist it’s functionally equivalent to staging.

Most real estate agents are going to stage a house or condo for real regardless because people are really going to go there, not just look at pictures online or show up with a VR headset. So in practice this is only going to affect rental units that are not staged.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by chickensong »

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.

The entire real estate industry is disgusting.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by underlipton »

thewebguyd wrote: post #77
HumblyTossed wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

> it seems nobody is enforcing consumer protections like they used to I'll preface this by saying that I don't agree with how things are working currently. But, the way the existing protections get enforced is by an individual or group of individuals filing lawsuits. Our regulatory agencies have either been completely gutted by DOGE, or just no longer have an appetite to do any kind of proactive enforcement, so its n…

>so its now up to the victims who have been wronged to bring the violation to the attention of the courts/regulatory bodies responsible for enforcement.

lol

Have you tried finding a lawyer recently? For anything?

>The legal system needs to be made much more accessible, but I'm not sure how that happens or what that looks like.

As far as consumer protection goes, the party with greater resources or sophistication (e.g., if you retain counsel against a pro se defendant or plaintiff) should have a higher standard of proof; be forced to follow formal procedural rules, no matter the venue; and bear all costs if they're the ones who brought suit. If you use the court system as an arm of your business, you shouldn't get any leniency in terms of crossing your t's and dotting your i's. I don't know how you get there, but that's the fastest way to level the playing field.

Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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Re: Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Post by VectorLock »

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.

Using it for "staging" shitty rentals is pretty gross, but I used Nano Banana to make some mockups for a bath room remodel I'm doing and it worked pretty great.
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