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Most employed (and contracting) humans are prompted repeatedly every day.
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Yes, but also no. If I prompt a graphics artist, "draw me a picture, any style, of a calendar with this day circled in red", you do not have to tell them what a calendar looks like, what the days of the week are, or how many there are, or that days in a month increment sequentially.

Yet if you prompt an AI: https://share.gemini.google/TyUxSnrKmq9h

Also, you probably don't need to tell an artist "don't violate other people's copyrights" while you're at it, though that's perhaps somewhat more debatable than "does the artist know that the day after Thursday is Friday".

This applies equally to all disciplines: AI generated code regularly contains wtfisms that a human would not need to be guided from, or at the very least (more similar to the copyright problems) that experience and knowledge would drive them away from — and permit me to entrust, particularly more experienced — humans with a vague outline of the idea, and trust that the details will get filled in sensibly. "Filling in details sensibly" is where AI hallucinates the hardest.

(And just to head off, "it's a one-off mistake!" Another example: https://share.gemini.google/yE6axJvBDKYE ; another example: https://share.gemini.google/WG6TEBjlyro7 (though admittedly, the calendar is pretty good here, I think "humans have 2 arms" is well within the point I'm making of "stuff I don't need to prompt human artists with") ; and another example: https://share.gemini.google/CIH4QM2teQKf ; and another example: https://share.gemini.google/n76c9eJq1dGe)


You are conflating the specific technical limitations of Nano Banana 2 with the general nature of AI.

This is akin to the "God of the gaps" fallacy, wherein your worldview is going to be repeatedly decimated by advancements in models.

Nano Banana 2 isn't even in the top 5 image models anymore - it's obsolete: https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image

For example, the same prompt in GPT-Image-2 has no such issue (I even asked for a calendar, just for you): https://chatgpt.com/share/6a9dbdb6-1c00-83eb-b445-9a0608ca79...

And here are your other requests in GPT-Image-2:

- https://chatgpt.com/share/6a9dbe6a-85d0-83eb-8cfb-ce7bd040d0...

- https://chatgpt.com/share/6a9dbedc-fae4-83eb-a9e7-291b58aa73...

- https://chatgpt.com/share/6a9dc1e8-5100-83ed-9d19-2ebe55459d...

- https://chatgpt.com/share/6a9dc4ec-6d44-83eb-8b2f-b82ad1b811...

Google DeepMind is far behind the frontier. Switch to ChatGPT, Claude, or Grok!




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