Why Google’s Nano Banana is a danger to artists
Google recently revealed Gemini’s Nano Banana, a new AI image editing model that is claimed to have surpassed competitors such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Musk’s Grok.
While the latest AI model is being celebrated among tech enthusiasts, artists are already expressing concerns on social media, taking into account negatives such as generating base sketches from models, creating poses and reactions from a single illustration, feeding the model an artist’s work to produce comic panels in a specific style, and many more.
Why Google’s Nano Banana is a danger to artists
The clash between AI-generated content and artists is nothing new, and with its advanced features, Google’s Nano Banana will intensify the debate rather than resolve it.
Social media users took to platforms such as X (formerly known as Twitter) to share Nano Banana’s abilities. A self-proclaimed AI “artist” named “-Zho-” shared several generative examples on X.
They used a sketch from an artist on Pinterest to generate a realistic model of an Asian woman, and the results were very accurate, except for some hiccups with the pose, such as the face angle.
Why is AI hated in the art community?
To put it simply, the idea of a robot replacing human creativity is concerning for several reasons, and many creatives across the globe have been voicing their explicit anti-AI stance on social media via posts and videos.
Many artists spend years perfecting their craft by studying human anatomy, perspective, their favorite artists, and more. So, for all that hard work to be taken and fed to a machine without their consent is like a spit to the face.
AI models can’t generate images without having access to millions of artists’ works at their disposal.
Every day, many artists voice their concerns about losing their jobs in the gaming and animation industries to AI due to cost-cutting measures and the growing wave of layoffs.
