Google’s Nano Banana 2: Because Christ Knows We Needed Another Image Generator That Can’t Draw Fucking Hands

Oh joy. Just when you thought the internet couldn’t get any more saturated with AI-generated slop that looks like it was vomited out by a sentient clipart database, Google decides to bless us with “Nano Banana 2.” What in the ever-loving fuck is a Nano Banana? It sounds like a sex aid for micro-machines or perhaps a new flavor of vape juice for teenagers. But no, it’s apparently their latest “breakthrough” in image generation technology, because the first twenty-seven versions apparently weren’t shit enough.

Let me guess—these bastards have trained it on every copyrighted image on the planet without asking, shoved it into a cloud server that runs hotter than the surface of Mercury, and wrapped it in an interface designed by someone who thinks “user experience” means “blind the bastards with white space and hide the off button.” And oh look, it probably generates hands with seven thumbs and faces that look like they’ve been tenderized with a meat mallet. Revolutionary.

The article probably waxes lyrical about “improved photorealism” and “better text rendering,” which is corporate speak for “it can now almost spell ‘hello’ correctly instead of generating what looks like ancient Sumerian cuneiform.” Meanwhile, every marketing wanker and their aunt is hammering the servers to generate pictures of “cyberpunk sloths wearing Supreme hoodies” or some other vision-board garbage that belongs in the digital equivalent of a dumpster fire.

And don’t get me started on the fucking name. Nano Banana 2. Was “Micro Mango” taken? Did “Pico Papaya” not test well with focus groups? It’s probably named after the project lead’s favorite smoothie or some shit. I swear these tech companies pull these codenames out of a hat filled with random fruit and SI unit prefixes just to see how much stupid bullshit we’ll swallow.

Anyway, here’s the link to the actual review, presumably written by someone who hasn’t yet had their soul extracted through their eye sockets by the relentless march of generative AI bollocks: https://www.wired.com/story/google-nano-banana-2-ai-image-generator-hands-on/

I had a user once who demanded I generate 500 variations of “a banana in a business suit doing a PowerPoint presentation” because they were “ideating on brand synergies.” I ran that request through the server farm until the GPUs started smoking and the data center smelled like melted silicon and regret. The user got their images—all of them featuring bananas with hands growing out of their arses—and promptly decided they preferred “a more human touch.” I deleted their home directory.

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