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Nano Banana Pro
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Re: Nano Banana Pro
#442Google has been stomping around like Godzilla this week, and this is the first time I decided to link my card to their AI studio. I had seen people saying that they gave up and went to another platform because it was "impossible to pay". I thought this was strange, but after trying to get a working API key for the past half hour, I see what they mean. Everything is set up, I see a message that says "You're using Paid…
First off, apologies for the bad first impression, the team is pushing super hard to make sure it is easy to access these models. - On permission issue, not sure I follow the flow that got you there, pls email me more details if you are able too and happy to debug: Lkilpatrick@google.com - On overall friction for billing: we are working on a new billing experience built right into AI Studio that will make it super ea…
The fact that your team is worrying about billing is...worrying. You guys should just be focused on the product (which I love, thanks!)
Google has serious fragmentation problems, and really it seems like someone else with high rank should be enforcing (and have a team dedicated to) a centralized frictionless billing system for customers to use.
Re: Nano Banana Pro
#443Google needs to pace themselves. AI studio, Antigravity, Banana, Banana Pro, Grape Ultra, Gemini 3, etc. This information overload don't do them any good whatsoever.
Why? They're mostly different markets. Most people using Nano Banana Pro aren't using Antigravity. A cluster of launches reinforces the idea that Google is growing and leading in a bunch of areas. In other words, if it's having so many successes it feels like overload, that's an excellent narrative. It's not like it's going to prevent people from using the tools.
> A cluster of launches reinforces the idea that Google is growing and leading in a bunch of areas.
What in the Gemini 3 powered astroturf bot is this?
They probably just had an internal mandate to ship by end of year.
> if it's having so many successes it feels like overload, that's an excellent narrative
Yeah, if this is the best spin you've got I'm doubling down. Those teams were on the chopping block.
Re: Nano Banana Pro
#444Alright results are in! I've re-run all my editing based adherence related prompts through Nano Banana Pro. NB Pro managed to successfully pass SHRDLU, the M&M Van Halen test (as verified independently by Simon), and the Scorpio street test - all of which the original NB failed. Model results 1. Nano Banana Pro: 10 / 12 2. Seedream4: 9 / 12 3. Nano Banana: 7 / 12 4. Qwen Image Edit: 6 / 12 https://genai-showdown.spec…
I think Nano Banana Pro should have passed your giraffe test. It's not a great result but it is exactly what you asked for. It's no worse than Seedream's result imo.
Yeah I think that's a fair critique. It kind of looks like a bad cut-and-replace job (if you zoom in you can even see part of the neck is missing). I might give it some more attempts to see if it can do a better job.
I agree that Seedream could definitely be called out as a fail since it might just be a trick of perspective.
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#445Something I find weird about AI image generation models is that even though they no longer produce weird "artifacts" that give away that the fact that it was AI generated, you can still recognize that it's AI due to stylistic choices. Not all examples they gave were like this. The example they gave of the word "Typography" would have fooled me as human-made. The infographics stood out though. I would have immediately…
The problem is how they are fine tuned with human feedbacks that are not opinionated, so they produce some "average taste" that is very recognizable. Early models didn't have this issue, it's a paradox... Lower quality / broken images but often more interesting. Krea & Black Forest did a blog post about that some time ago.
Re: Nano Banana Pro
#446Earlier quoted context omitted.
First off, apologies for the bad first impression, the team is pushing super hard to make sure it is easy to access these models. - On permission issue, not sure I follow the flow that got you there, pls email me more details if you are able too and happy to debug: Lkilpatrick@google.com - On overall friction for billing: we are working on a new billing experience built right into AI Studio that will make it super ea…
Please make sure that the new billing experience has support for billing limits and prepaid balance (to avoid unexpected charges)!
Lol. Since the GirlsGoneWild people pioneered the concept of automatically-recurring subscriptions, unexpected charges and difficult-to-cancel billing is the game. The best customer is always the one that pays but never uses the service ... and ideally has forgotten or lost access to the email address they used when signing up.
Re: Nano Banana Pro
#447Alright results are in! I've re-run all my editing based adherence related prompts through Nano Banana Pro. NB Pro managed to successfully pass SHRDLU, the M&M Van Halen test (as verified independently by Simon), and the Scorpio street test - all of which the original NB failed. Model results 1. Nano Banana Pro: 10 / 12 2. Seedream4: 9 / 12 3. Nano Banana: 7 / 12 4. Qwen Image Edit: 6 / 12 https://genai-showdown.spec…
The pisa tower test is really interesting. Many of this prompt have stricter criteria with implicit knowledge and some models impressively pass it. Yet for something as obvious as straightening a slanted object is hard even for latest models.
I suspect there'd be no problem rotating a different object. But this tower is EXTREMELY represented in the training data. It's almost an immutable law of physics that Towers in Pisa are Leaning.
Re: Nano Banana Pro
#448Earlier quoted context omitted.
>This is a GREAT example of the (not so) subtle mistakes AI will make in image generation, or code creation, or your future knee surgery. The mistake is in the prompting (not enough information). The AI did the best it could "What's the biggest known planet" "Jupiter" "NO I MEANT IN THE UNIVERSE!"
asking "x-most known y" and not expecting a global answer is odd
Every answer concerning planets is global.
Re: Nano Banana Pro
#449Google has been stomping around like Godzilla this week, and this is the first time I decided to link my card to their AI studio. I had seen people saying that they gave up and went to another platform because it was "impossible to pay". I thought this was strange, but after trying to get a working API key for the past half hour, I see what they mean. Everything is set up, I see a message that says "You're using Paid…
First off, apologies for the bad first impression, the team is pushing super hard to make sure it is easy to access these models. - On permission issue, not sure I follow the flow that got you there, pls email me more details if you are able too and happy to debug: Lkilpatrick@google.com - On overall friction for billing: we are working on a new billing experience built right into AI Studio that will make it super ea…
The new releases this week baited me into business ultra subscription. Sadly it’s totally useless for gemini 3 cli and now also nano banana does not work. Just wow.
Re: Nano Banana Pro
#450The 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"…
this already exists. its called 35mm film camera.