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Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by inquirerGeneral »

bayarearefugee wrote: post #472
asah wrote: post #463

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But then we'd complain about Google being a slow moving dinosaur. "Move fast and break things" cuts both ways ! (ex-Google tech lead, who took down the Google.com homepage... twice!)

Its not a new problem though, and its not just billing. The UI across Gemini just generally sucks (across AI Studio and the chat interfaces) and there's lots of annoying failure cases where Gemini will just timeout and stop working entirely midrequest. Been like this for quite a while, well before Gemini 3. So far I continue to put up with it because I find the model to be the best commercial option for my usage, but…

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Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by SweetSoftPillow »

logankilpatrick wrote: post #419
ceroxylon wrote: post #306

Google 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…

Can we get free Nano Banana in AI studio at least in super low resolution? For app building and testing purposes it will be fine and cheap enough for you to make it possible?

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by montag »

asah wrote: post #463
everdev wrote: post #434

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the team should push hard before releasing the product instead of after to make it work.

But then we'd complain about Google being a slow moving dinosaur. "Move fast and break things" cuts both ways ! (ex-Google tech lead, who took down the Google.com homepage... twice!)

this way is better. Burn in public, burn much faster.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by M4v3R »

gloosx wrote: post #620

Generated images still contain JPEG artifacts all over them. We are not doomed yet - can pretty much reliably spot RAW image vs AI-generated image by just zooming in

It's only a matter of time this will be fixed, also there probably already are custom LoRAs that can remove jpeg artifacts. So it's not a matter of if, only when.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by 1dom »

thehappypm wrote: post #563
risyachka wrote: post #502

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are talking here about the most basic things- nothing AI related. Basic billing. The fact that it is not working says a lot about the future of the product and company culture in general (obviously they are not product-oriented)

There’s nothing basic about billing.

Given how many paid offerings Google has, and the complexity and nuance to some of those offering (e.g. AdSense) I am pretty surprised that Google don't have a functioning drop in solution for billing across the company.

If they do, it's failing here. The idea of a penny pinching megacorp like Google failing technically even in the penny pinching arena is a surprise to me.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by andrepd »

rl3 wrote: post #544
vunderba wrote: post #396

Alright 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…

"Remove all the trash from the street and sidewalk. Replace the sleeping person on the ground with a green street bench. Change the parking meter into a planted tree." Three sentences that do a great job summing up modern big tech. The new model even manages to [digitally] remove all trash.

Yep, no need for actual urbanism or to worry about the homeless, now governments and realtors can lie to you more conveniently and at an industrial scale! Yay future

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by stared »

ceroxylon wrote: post #306

Google 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…

I ended up using OpenRouter (which I use anyway).

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by __alexs »

logankilpatrick wrote: post #419
ceroxylon wrote: post #306

Google 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…

When we first started using Gemini for a new product a few months ago you banned our entire GCP account from using at all Gemini in the middle of a demo to our board. Doesn't seem like things have improved all that much on the on boarding front.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by user34283 »

AmbroseBierce wrote: post #509

2D animators can still feel safe about their job, I asked it to generate a sprite sheet animation by giving it the final frame of the animation (as a PNG file) and asking in detail what I wanted in the spritesheet, it just gave me mediocre results, I asked for 8 frames and it just repeated a bunch of poses just to reach that number instead of doing what a human would have done with the same request, meaning the in-be…

When I tried the same with video models a few months ago by extracting the frames, it was not working so well either.

However, this should be solvable in the near future.

I'm looking forward to making some 2D games.

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