Google takes Photoshop to the woodshed with new image AI

Google has updated its Gemini AI image generation tool with a build that caused a stir after it was released under the code name Nano Bananas. The upgrade, technically called Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, lets users generate images through voice and text prompts, including swapping out participants in a photo, changing what they are …

[elDog]

The old Politburo would love this. So will the new dictators.

A few text commands and trump is fit and trim. Epstein has been disappeared. Jesus smiles on everyone.

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Re: The old Politburo would love this. So will the new dictators.

A few text commands and trump is fit and trim

With bigly hands

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: The old Politburo would love this. So will the new dictators.

Sorry, too late.

And it seems he posted it himself in his own social network!

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Re: The old Politburo would love this. So will the new dictators.

A few text commands and trump is [seen receiving the Nobel Peace Prize]

[DS999]

Re: The old Politburo would love this. So will the new dictators.

In order to make that happen, Trump would have to take a page from the Politburo playbook and no longer appear in public so we're only shown pictures/video of him. His ego wouldn't accept being locked away in the White House spending the next 12 months (if you believe Steve Bannon) rotting away like a Dorian Gray painting not getting the public adulation he so desperately needs.

[Charlie Clark]

Re: The old Politburo would love this. So will the new dictators.

He could always do what his mate Vlad does, and send doppelgangers to meet the plebs. But I also don't think his ego, or probably more accurately, his craven narcissism would let him.

[DS999]

Re: The old Politburo would love this. So will the new dictators.

He looks too weird. There is no way there is another human being is out there who looks anything like him, even with orange makeup and that goofy oversized suit to hide his fat body.

[Anonymous Coward]

""Once you're done, you can even upload your edited image back into Gemini to turn your new photo into a fun video."

The utter banality of tech companies is a crime against sentience.

[Neil Barnes]

"Organic life-forms have no sense of fun."

[that one in the corner]

This nozzle in the wall just sprayed me with the smell of stale sweat^^^^^social media posts

[Charlie Clark]

Hi, I'm from the marketing department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation and would like to introduce to Marvin, our Android.

[ITMA]

Would you mind just standing over there.... yes in front of that wall.....

FIRE!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's clever but..

As clever as this stuff is, and as a lifelong IT person I do find it very clever, it really will fck society over. Never again can we trust anything we see.

[wolfetone]

Re: It's clever but..

Years ago Matt Stone and Trey Parker made "Sassy Justice", which was all AI generated. Essentially had Donald Trump as a news reporter and it was talking about deepfake AI videos etc.

They had an AI generated Michael Cain voiced by Peter Serafinowicz. Genuinely you could not tell whether it was Cain or not. It did weird me out, still does to be honest. So every time I see anything online now there is an element of that video in my head where I wonder if it's true or not.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: It's clever but..

It included Zuckerberg fronting adverts for a dialysis center and I think the video for that was deliberately rubbish. Still really funny though.

[Charlie Clark]

Re: It's clever but..

I think similar things were said when photography became popular and then film, etc. But we adapted and survived.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Re: It's clever but..

You really don't have any idea what's going on, do you?

[Hanzo1958]

Re: It's clever but..

Do you REALLY believe that the impact of AI imagery is only going to be the same as that of photography?

[Charlie Clark]

Re: It's clever but..

Difficult to say, I was providing some historical context because, at the time, photography was also considered revolutionary and disruptive.

[Havin_it]

Re: It's clever but..

"Never again can we trust anything we see."

Who said that or anything like it about photography?

[LogicGate]

What this means is that the mango menace could finally grow a pair and start pushing back against russia while still having deniability with regards to various recordings that Putin may threaten to release.

..one can hope...

[Anonymous Coward]

seek help man, your TDS is off the charts, not everything is about the "mango menace" FFS this is about AI slop and you have to tell us how much you hate the orange man, well done, have a biscuit or something.

[LogicGate]

Actually, it is about how still and moving images are just about to loose their value as proof or evidence of reality.

This is something that I find bloody scary. How will we in the near future be able to say what is real and what is made up (your AI slop).

The jump from there to the worlds most destructive and reality denying "politician" is a short one, The man and his base IS using AI in their attempts to spin a reality that suits them.

He is also making sure that EVERYTHING is about him. This does not require the so called "TDS".

I was just hoping that something good could come out of this deniability, but I do not have great hope.

[Marc 13]

But can it edit / update the gibberish text that popups in many Ai crated images?

[Not Yb]

Many of the newer AI generators have little or no problem creating short sections of readable text.

[munnoch]

Thankfully there is no possibility this could ever be used for any sort of harm...

As someone who did image segmentation for my dissertation some decades ago what can be done now is bloody impressive. Sadly I'll never dabble in it because I never feel the need to tinker with my photos. They are a record of the reality that prevailed at the time, warts and all. Perhaps the general population could get on board with that concept -- real life, that is.

[ICL1900-G3]

A person after my own heart. A photo of what didn't happen? Sorry, not for me. I go no further than adjusting the contrast and brightness.

[Simon Harris]

I'll extend that to dust spot removal, and some judicious cropping - particularly after this weekend when from somewhere in my camera in the middle of a session a bit of dust mysteriously landed on my sensor, and rather than the traditional round blob had managed to form itself into the shape of a cock and balls. I suspect next weekend will involve a certain amount of sensor cleaning.

[LionelB]

"... the traditional round blob had managed to form itself into the shape of a cock and balls."

Hate it when that happens.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Then you don't understand the whole photographic process.

[GlenP]

The only tinkering I've done generally is on group photos at events where typically one or two people missed being at the shoot - the organisers invariably want you to edit them in. It's bending reality slightly but I wouldn't edit in someone who wasn't at the event at all.

Otherwise yes, brightness, contrast, colour, etc. do get tweaked to compensate for the lighting conditions.

[Havin_it]

>They are a record of the reality that prevailed at the time, warts and all.

We've only got your word for that now though, innit?

[seven of five]

Gemini, generate Cindy Crawford with the entire catalogue of Victorias Secret, por favor.

[werdsmith]

Generating images of 59 year old woman in lingerie…please wait.

[Jonjonz]

They still cannot handle things like the 90 degree rotated bingo card, or creating an image of a 10x10 city street grid with only one-way roads that provide the shortest routes from any address to another.

[Gort99]

That's all very clever but not really worth burning the world over.

[Scotthva5]

Exactly.

[LionelB]

As far as I could throw it...

But do we know your man actually has five fingers per hand and opposable thumbs?

[Simon Harris]

Re: As far as I could throw it...

Whenever I see an AI generated image, my first impulse is still to count the fingers.

[Anonymous Coward]

Here we go again!

As a semi-pro photographer all I can say is, this is the same of sort of shit that people who say "Photography is just pointing a camera and clicking a button! I can shoot better pictures on my phone!". Yeah, like saying you can code better than a 30+ year C veteran after watching a few YouTube beginner vids about Python!

Despite AI I'm still earning money from selling my images I shoot for fun doing my favourite hobby!

[vapoureal]

Clocks

This is a key test for me, generating an image of a clock with the requested time shown correctly. So far most images are only correct twice a day.

[Francis Boyle]

So it's actually AE

Artificial Eccles.

[Havin_it]

Beautiful cabin crew

Scarlett Johannson