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Post by CamperBob2 »

egypturnash wrote: post #285

Everyone who worked on this is a traitor to the human race. Why do we need to make it impossible to make a living as an artist? Who thinks an endless tsunami of garbage “content” churned out by machines dropping the bottom out of all artistic disciplines is a good idea?

(Shrug) If you expect to coast through an uneventful, unchallenging career, neither art nor technology are going to be great options for you. Learn to mine coal or something, I guess.

Or... put your hands on the most amazing art tools since the Renaissance and go make something awesome.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by CamperBob2 »

t-writescode wrote: post #539
egypturnash wrote: post #285

Everyone who worked on this is a traitor to the human race. Why do we need to make it impossible to make a living as an artist? Who thinks an endless tsunami of garbage “content” churned out by machines dropping the bottom out of all artistic disciplines is a good idea?

I want to piggyback off what you’ve said, but for *additional* problems with this: To me, this is terrifying. Major use-cases presented on this page: * photo editing / post-processing * branding * infographics Photo editing and post-processing seems like the “least harmful” version of this. Doing moderate color-space tweaks or image extensions based on the images themselves seems like a “relatively not-evil” activity…

Copyright is done, for better or worse. Up until very recently, many if not most HN'ers would have considered that a GOOD thing.

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Post by vagab0nd »

indigodaddy wrote: post #389

I don't understand the excitement around generating and/or watching AI-produced videos. To me it's probably the single most uninteresting and boring thing related to AI that I can think of. What is the appeal?

Thoughts on photography when it first appeared:

"Not by the taking of a picture of any specific object, but by the way in which any random object could be made to appear on the photographic plate. This was something of such unheard-of novelty that the photographer was delighted by each and every shot he took, and it awakened unknown and overwhelming emotions in him..."

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Post by into_the_void »

Is SynthID actually running an AI classifier to decide whether an image is model-generated, or is it only checking for an embedded watermark? If it’s a classifier, the accuracy is questionable — generic “AI detection” tools tend to produce high false-positive rates. Also unclear whether it’s doing semantic anomaly checks (extra fingers, physics errors) or low-level pixel-signature analysis.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by bonoboTP »

ceroxylon wrote: post #348
bonoboTP wrote: post #338

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use it also in Gemini.

It wasn't there when I first went to Gemini after the announcement, but upon revisiting it gave me the prompt to try Nano Banana Pro. It failed at my niche (rare palm trees). Incredible technology, don't get me wrong, but still shocked at the cumbersome payment interface and annoyed that enabling Drive is the only way to save.

> at the cumbersome payment interface and annoyed that enabling Drive is the only way to save.

For the general audience, Gemini is the intended product, API and AI studio is for advanced users. Gemini is very easy to pay for. In Gemini, you can save all images as a regular browser download by clicking the top right of the image where it says "Download full size".

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Post by fooqux »

leopoldj wrote: post #555
ukuina wrote: post #538

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congrats on the move to Google! Please allow me to rant to someone who can actually do something about this. Vertex AI has been a nightmare to simply sign up, link a credit card, and start using Claude Sonnet (now available on Vertex AI). The sheer number of steps required for this (failed) user journey is dizzying: * AI Studio, get API key * AI Studio, link payment method: Auto-creates GCP property, which is nice *…

You went further with GCP than I did. I was asked repeatedly by support to contact some kind of a Google sales team. I get the feeling GCP is not good for individuals like I. My friends who work with enterprise cloud have very high opinion about their tech stack.

> I get the feeling GCP is not good for individuals like I.

Google isn't good for individuals at all. Unless you've got a few million followers or get lucky on HN, support is literally non-existent. Anyone that builds a business on Google is nuts.

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Post by skybrian »

mortenjorck wrote: post #184

This is the first image model I’ve used that passed my piano test. It actually generated an image of a keyboard with the proper pattern of black keys repeated per octave – every other model I’ve tried this with since the first Dall-E has struggled to render more than a single octave, usually clumping groups of two black keys or grouping them four at a time. Very impressive grasp of recursive patterns.

I got one pass and one fail, then ran out of quota.
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