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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".
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.