"But it excels at something far more powerful, and potentially sinister-editing existing images to add elements that were never there, in a way that's so seamless and convincing that even experts like myself can't detect the changes. That makes Nano Banana (and its inevitable copycats) both invaluable creative tools and an existential threat to the trustworthiness of photos-both new and historical."
"As soon as Google released Nano Banana, I started putting it through its paces. Lots of examples online-mine included-focus on cutesy and fun uses of Nano Banana's powerful image-editing capabilities. In my early testing, I placed my dog, Lance, into a Parisian street scene filled with piles of bananas and showed how I would look wearing a Tilley Airflo hat. (Answer: very good.)"
Google's Nano Banana is a new image-AI system that dramatically improves on the company's prior image-generation efforts by focusing on editing existing photos. The model inserts new elements into real images with remarkable seamlessness and realism, producing changes that can evade expert detection. Early tests placed people and animals into varied scenes, including convincing background landscapes and implausible contexts like a parka with a polo shirt. The tool serves as a powerful creative aid while simultaneously raising the risk of misinformation, historical image manipulation, and broad erosion of confidence in photographic evidence.
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