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Posted by SweetSoftPillow 9/11/2025

Nano Banana image examples(github.com)
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ec109685 9/12/2025||
GitHub should be so ashamed that the back button no longer works and jumps to top of page.

They should have learned what do in SPA 101

m3kw9 9/11/2025||
The ability to pretty accurately keep the same image from an input is a clear sign of it's improved abilities.
stoobs 9/11/2025||
I'm pretty sure these are cherry-picked out of many generation attempts, I tried a few basic things and it flat out refused to do many of them like turning a cartoon illustration into a real-world photographic portrait, it kept wanting to create a pixar style image, then when I used an ai generated portrait as an example, it refused with an error saying it wouldn't modify real world people...

I then tried to generate some multi-angle product shots from a single photo of an object, and it just refused to do the whole left, right, front, back thing, and kept doing things like a left, a front, another left, and weird half back/half side view combination.

Very frustrating.

SweetSoftPillow 9/11/2025|
Are you in gemini.google.com interface? If so, try Google AI Studio instead, there you can disable safety filters.
stoobs 9/11/2025||
I'm in AI Studio, and weirdly I get no safety settings.

I had them before when I was trying this and yes, I had them turned off.

vunderba 9/11/2025||
Yeah I don't see them anymore either.

I use the API directly but unless I'm having a "Berenstein Bears moment" I could have sworn those safety settings existed under the Advanced Options in AI Studio a few weeks ago.

Giorgi 9/12/2025||
These actually look awesome, wonder if it can actually create nice isometric graphics for games
destel 9/11/2025||
Some examples are mind blowing. It’s interesting if it can generate web/app designs
AstroBen 9/11/2025|
I just tried it for an app I'm working on.. very bad results
destel 9/12/2025||
I had similar bad results with gpt 4o/5 when they got these image generation capabilities.

Don’t know what’s the reason: my bad prompting or these models being tuned to work with photos/illustrations only

ChrisArchitect 9/11/2025||
sigh

so many little details off when the instructions are clear and/or the details are there. Brad Pitt jeans? The result are not the same style and missing clear details which should be expected to just translate over.

Another one where the prompt ended with output in a 16:9 ratio. The image isn't in that ratio.

The results are visually something but then still need so much review. Can't trust the model. Can't trust people lazily using it. Someone mentioned something about 'net negative'.

istjohn 9/11/2025||
Yes, almost all of the examples are off in one way or another. The viewpoints don't actually match the arrow directions, for example. And if you actually use the model, you will see that even these examples must be cherry-picked.
bflesch 9/12/2025||
The way you formulated your message just made me realize that we got somehow duped into accepting the term "model" (as in "scientific model") as a valid word for this AI stuff. A scientific model has a theoretical foundation and specific configuration parameters.

The way current AI is set up, you can't even reliably adjust the position of the sun.

quesera 9/12/2025||
I wouldn't consider the word "model" to be too precious. It does not have an expectation of fidelity in general.

Also, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong

bflesch 9/12/2025||
You need to wait until someone does the exact picture you want, annotates it in their android photo library, and google uses it to train their AI models. But then they will be able to provide you the perfect result for your query, totally done with AI! ;)
darepublic 9/12/2025||
Am I wrong to think they have Google photos to thank for this
downboots 9/12/2025||
Computer graphics playing in my head and I like it! I don't support Technicolor parfaits and those snobby little petit fours that sit there uneaten, and my position on that is common knowledge to everyone in Oceania.
barbs 9/12/2025|
Bytedance's Seedream seems to be giving it a run for its money:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdEn3aWHpO8

vunderba 9/12/2025|
Seedream 4 is yet another phenomenal Chinese model. On my comparison site it's currently ranked #1 scoring 9 out of 12. Nano-Banana trails at 7 out of 12.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing

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