AI image generators used to be terrible at handling text. Even once the models mastered hands with five fingers, the presence of mangled, nonsensical, vaguely Cyrillic-looking text was a dead giveaway that an image was generated by AI.

Not anymore.

Today’s most advanced image generators have slowly improved their text generation. OpenAI’s image generator within ChatGPT handles basic text tasks fairly well. And design-centered models like Ideogram are great for simple, practical text tasks like creating video thumbnails.

This week, though, Google has released Nano Banana Pro, an updated version of its wildly popular AI image editing tool.

Nano Banana Pro, like its predecessor, is middling when it comes to generating realistic AI photographs. But it’s absolutely amazing at creating beaut

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