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Oh wow, I've been hearing about Nano Banana Pro in random stuff lately, but as a layman the difference is stark. It's the only one that actually looks like a partially eaten burrito at all to me. The others all look like staged marketing fake food, if I'm being generous (only a few actually approach that, most just look wrong).

One of my tests for new image generation models is professional food photography, particularly in cases where the food has constraints, such as "a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the shape of a Rubik’s cube" (blog post from 2022 for DALL-E 2: https://minimaxir.com/2022/07/food-photography-ai/ )

For some reason ever since DALL-E 2, all food models seem to generate obviously fake food and/or misinterpret the fun constraints...until Nano Banana. Now I can generate fractal Sierpiński triangle peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

An interesting American culinary divide is between Scottsdale and Phoenix homemade burritos. The former being closest related to the Midwest variety, the latter to a Sonoran style.

Even ignoring the Heinz bean outliers, these are all decidedly Scottsdale. With one exception. All hail Nano Banana.

The burrito benchmark is poised to become an industry standard.

This progress bodes well for my chances of visualizing an invention I have been working on, a perpetual burrito extruding machine

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With llms there is a secondary training step to turn a foundational model into a chat bot. Is these something similar going on with these image generation models, that is making them all tend towards making pretty clean images and stopping them making half eaten food even if they have the capabilities?

That SD 1.5 picture doesn't look like base SD 1.5. It's way too good, perhaps it was some kind of finetune like RealisticVision?

Only nano banana looks somewhat partially-eaten.

I like how a couple of these basically show the model is confused between pinto beans and baked beans.

I find it a bit surprising GenAI has made it this far without this benchmark

Would be great to see video results for this as well. I generated some with other models. Nano pro seems the best so far

Is no one going to mention fast Lightning’s sploogerito

Nano banana is incredible. What is their secret sauce?

Impressive partially eaten burrito by NB Pro

I am disappointed there were not donkeys in any image.

they are all very good...

This is spooking our appetite

Very impressive, nano banana pro has this this wrapped up. The other ones look like has-beans.

I don't eat a lot of burritos and when I do they aren't bean burritos, so I'm honestly wondering: do they commonly have whole beans in them? I expect that if they do, they aren't often so clean and shiny looking, but what I expected is more of a mushy/refried bean look.

Do people get burritos with beans in them more or less as pictured? Aesthetically, it seems like it'd look pretty appealing if you were someone who loved beans compared to what I had in mind, but again I'm really in no position to judge these images based on bean appearance.

I'm so easily influenced. I came very close to immediately ordering Mexican food on DoorDash.