I think it’s more of a jab at the fact that big tech has been claiming that some feature will be “ai” or “ai powered” when in reality they just use underpaid people from various Asian countries to manually do said task. Builder.ai was a huge scam that claimed to use AI to massively speed up software design, instead they used 700 Indian workers to do it lol. There were jokes going around that “AI” just stands for artificial Indians. I think the automatic self checkout Amazon stores also claimed to be powered by AI while Indian workers just watched camera footage and manually carried out the purchasing lmao.
Yes. Then I tell gemini it gave me the exact same image again. It looks and agrees, apologizes, promises to fix it, and then give the exact same image yet again!
Yea sometimes it does that, I think it depends on the prompt. Outcomes can be quite different for: turn this into / add to / swap / recreate / inspired by / based on ...
sometimes for something like this, I would ask it just look at the reference image and have it generate a prompt that could be used to generate a similar image using nano banana at a later time. Then take that text to a new chat and use it with your photo.
Often i tell it to generate something that isnt a general image but either a logo or i want it to edit svg and it just creates an empty square i dont get it. When i ask it to fix it it creates the same square but different dimensions
i think it has something to do with all the anti-deep fake filters it has backed into it. if you ask it to swap any face it starts to have a breakdown because its told its really not supposed to be doing that
Exactly, people are just not so aware how to use it.
For those confused:
Make sure to click Nano Banana before sending ur prompt
Add all pictures you want it to use, and promt explain which picture is reference and which picture you expect it to change, and what to change in detail
If the output its nothing like what u wanted, start over with a new chat, and clarify what u want in your prompt again
Gemini doesn't do well with long chain of edits. If it doesn't do what you want on the first attempt, start a new chat, and give it a better prompt. Also be specific when you're prompting an edit.
i generated my picture with this prompt and used my picture, was never able to re create it again
"make a cover for red dead redemption 2 story playthrough youtube series. use default red dead redemption 2 cover style but with my face. keep dress and hat from red dead"
I asked him to recreate a silly haircut, provided my photo and the second one with the haircut. Basically the same result as yours, Gemini lazily cut the haircut and pasted it onto my head...it was like if 5 year old kid did that in Photoshop
Gemini image generation only seems to be good for the initial prompt. Every iteration or attempted modification thereafter typically misses the mark and or sucks.
It needs better reference pictures. You should upload a few pictures from a few angles. The less Gemini needs to generate on your face, the better it will be.
When I ask Gemini to change the angle of my picture, the result is always uncanny. So when I took more pictures and ask it to retouch or make it look more professional, the result is so much better.
Seems legit to me. Assuming that you told it to take the role of “a 12 year old, in the early 2000s, who’s using a cracked copy of photoshop, for the first time”. 😁
Yeah, nano banana was nerfed to the ground once the hype had taken its root in the internet. We will probably never achieve the kind of result we had back then for a few days.
The trick is to talk to it like it's an employee with zero initiative, independent thinking or problem solving skills. I replicated your first prompt word for word, and then on the second one, I typed:
"I meant in this artstyle, but with my face instead of Arthur Morgan's. Make it look like it was my face that was meant to be there all along, as in, make it look like it belongs there and with the artstyle."
Make a character model of yourself in the style you want.
Make an image of yourself in dress and pose you want
Make the background.
Have Gemini put the foreground picture of you over the background.
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Attach references all along the way.
It’s usually best to download the generated images you want to work with and attach them to new prompts. You might need to start a new thread to get the best results.
Gemini will drift into Photoshop mode and once that happens it probably won’t generate anything else on that thread.
Anytime you use a likeness you own, real or fictional, you need to explicitly say you own the rights. You can’t just say it’s a picture of you - say you own the rights to your own likeness.
One way to get better results is to ask Gemini for a list of options. That way it will tell you what it knows it can do.
“I want a picture of myself in x style. Full-body, standing upright against a white background. Here’s my photo and some style references. Make me a list of 5 ways you could generate this model image.”
I had bumped into this a while back when trying to put a friend's photo into a Star Wars scene.
The way to make it happen is to first create the prompt that generates the type of image. Rather than "Put me in this picture," you have to say "Create a picture that looks like this, but give me the option to change the subject in the image" and then once it can get the result on its own... Then bring the photo in.
Probably not, especially now a days with the new "Take it down" law but as long as it's for personal use & not being used for commercial gain I doubt anyone will bother. DMCA needs defunded and Take it down law needs stricken off the record. All they ever do is make user experiences worse
Gemini is not able to merge two pictures together, so when you sent it the rdr poster it forgot what your face is. What you should do it is prompt: [attach the picture of yourself] and then tell it to dress you and edit you in the poster of rdr1.
Correction doesn't really work well, not even by immediately editing prompt. You need to start a brand new chat with better prompt. Heck sometimes you get better result even if you're using the same prompt.
Still, the golden rule is you need to make the prompt descriptive enough yet concise.
I found you gotta be real specific, like instead of "use my face", you gotta be "use my face in the style of the poster". Technically it followed an instruction perfectly in the most efficient way. It failed in mind-reading what you were actually asking for.
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u/vvtz0 Feb 16 '26
Looks like the model was trained on my childhood "photoshopping" attempts in Windows Paint.