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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).

2 months agoby kbenson

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

2 months agoby blinding-streak

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.

2 months agoby minimaxir

An interesting American culinary divide is between Scottsdale and Phoenix homemade burritos. The former being close 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.

2 months agoby JumpCrisscross

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

2 months agoby jasonthorsness

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?

2 months agoby skocznymroczny

The burrito benchmark is poised to become an industry standard.

2 months agoby drob518

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.

2 months agoby autoexec

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2 months agoby N_Lens

Only nano banana looks somewhat partially-eaten.

2 months agoby elzbardico

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?

2 months agoby totetsu

Nano banana is incredible. What is their secret sauce?

2 months agoby adammarples

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

2 months agoby visioninmyblood

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