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Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model by WheatMillington on Thursday February 26, 2026 @05:13PM (#47172728)
>2. Originality matters more than ever. By design, these tools can only copy and mix things that already exist. But they aren't alive, they don't live in the world and have experiences, and they can't create something truly new.

How can you say this? These models can trivially create things that have never existed, and you can easily test this yourself.

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Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model by crote on Friday February 27, 2026 @01:21AM (#47177187)
Should a randomly-shuffled deck of cards be considered art? After all, the card shuffling machine created something which statistically has never existed before. Every shuffled deck should belong in a museum, right?

On the other hand, prompting AI for "pelican riding on a bicycle" clearly shows that it has far more trouble with unique concepts, compared to prompting for something more cookie-cutter.

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Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model by 7bit on Friday February 27, 2026 @05:01AM (#47178704)
You and the top-level commenter fundamentally misunderstand the mechanisms behind diffusion models. They are able to create original art and are not just shuffled cards.
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