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Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by maximinus_thrax »

asadm wrote: post #521
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?

upskill or gtfo.

Is this a personal opinion, your opinion as a Google employee or Google's position on the matter?

Have you cleared this statement with comms/PR?

Do you want OP to 'get the fuck out' if they don't upskill or is this a general statement related to artists?

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by CamperBob2 »

bombdailer wrote: post #599
CamperBob2 wrote: post #571

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(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.

No one using these tools will produce anything even a tenth as impressive as what was born out of the Renaissance, since their efforts were born of mastery, understanding, patience, a keen eye, and a love of nature and life. One who outsources their creativity and thinking to a machine will produce meaningless 'art' as empty as the shrinking contours of their mind as it withers away from non-use. Our world is not wan…

OK

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by tiagod »

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…

Cool site, thanks! By the way, the "Before" and "After" buttons are swapped.

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by lostmsu »

kennethologist wrote: post #465
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…

Easiest way is to go https://aistudio.google.com/api-keys set up an api key and add your billing to it.

Does this work on non-personal Google accounts?

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by IncreasePosts »

strbean wrote: post #553
tylervigen wrote: post #511

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Nano banana pro’s answer to the giraffe edit is far superior to the Seedream response, but you passed Seedream and failed NB pro. Maybe that one is just not a good test?

If you look closely, the NBP giraffe has a gaping hole in it's neck.

maybe that's just how his mom built him

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by belter »

ukuina wrote: post #538
logankilpatrick wrote: post #419

Earlier 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…

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 *…

I propose a new benchmark for Agentic AI...Be able to sign up for a Google Service...

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by sealeck »

visioninmyblood wrote: post #311

If Nano-Banana-pro with Veo 3.1 existed during my PhD, I would’ve finished a 6-year dissertation in a single year — it’s generating ideas today that used to take me 18 months just to convince people were possible.

What was your dissertation, and how would Nano-Banana-pro with Veo 3.1 have helped it?

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Post by visioninmyblood »

sealeck wrote: post #677
visioninmyblood wrote: post #311

If Nano-Banana-pro with Veo 3.1 existed during my PhD, I would’ve finished a 6-year dissertation in a single year — it’s generating ideas today that used to take me 18 months just to convince people were possible.

What was your dissertation, and how would Nano-Banana-pro with Veo 3.1 have helped it?

I was working on semantic segmentation. used to spend a long time creating graphics for presenting at conferences. I had a link showing the results but people were saying i was sharing too many links so deleted the link. But these tools with chatgpt can write a paper in a week which i used to take 6 months to do

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Post by arendtio »

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…

Since 3 days I am trying to get a login to Antigravity and first there was trouble with an api now all I get is 'Your current account is not eligible for Antigravity. Try signing in with another personal Google account'. Even though it is verified and in a supported region...

Re: Nano Banana Pro

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Post by archon810 »

herval wrote: post #477
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…

Google APIs in general are hilariously hard to adopt. With any other service on the planet, you go to a platform page, grab an api key and you’re good to go. Want to use Google’s gmail, maps, calendar or gemini api? Create a cloud account, create an app, enable the gmail service, create an oauth app, download a json file. Cmon now…

When I wake up in cold sweat in the middle of the night, it's because I interacted with yhr Google cloud management UI before I went to sleep.
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