Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model

Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model by squidsoup on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:36PM (#47170966)

> It's like you assigning to humans divine capabilities :) . Hyperbolizing a little, humans also only copy and mix - where do you think originality comes from? Granted, AI isn't at the level of humans yet, but they improve here.

Every human being is unique, both biologically and experientially. Until an AI can feel and have a lived experience, it can not create art.

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Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model by adventured on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:44PM (#47171059)

There's nothing special about art re humans and it doesn't require feeling or lived experiences. That's an arbitrary wall you're putting up.

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Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model by squidsoup on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:52PM (#47171146)

Demonstrably wrong. The most highly regarded AI artist today is Refik Adanol. His work was recently described by Jerry Saltz as a "glorified lava lamp".

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Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model by avmich on Thursday February 26, 2026 @03:14PM (#47171445)

I don't think this is a demonstration of impossibility, just a lack of demonstration of possibility.

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Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model by selridge on Thursday February 26, 2026 @05:09PM (#47172652)

Why should anyone care about either of those two people?

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Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model by squidsoup on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:49PM (#47174059)

The art establishment clearly does. Refik has a show at MoMA at the moment. Saltz won a Pulitzer for his art criticism, so I guess the Pulitzer committee cares.

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Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model by Jensson on Thursday February 26, 2026 @07:33PM (#47174570)

But normal people doesn't care about the art establishment, it has no impact on their lives, it could die tomorrow and almost nobody would notice.

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Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model by Erem on Friday February 27, 2026 @01:17AM (#47177159)

Who said the bar here is normal people? Normal people, in any discipline, are definitionally not the ones who push the discipline forward.

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Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model by selridge on Thursday February 26, 2026 @05:08PM (#47172644)

Will smith eating spaghetti is art, sorry.

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Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model by squidsoup on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:47PM (#47174038)

If everything is art, then nothing is art. Conceptual art, and everything that followed in Duchamp's wake, is mostly meaningless nonsense, sorry.

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Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model by selridge on Thursday February 26, 2026 @07:33PM (#47174574)

Fresh take

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