Gemini 2.5 Flash (more commonly known as the "Nano Banana" model) was released in August, but I haven't had much chance to experiment with it until now. Like ChatGPT's image generation tool, Nano Banana can generate and edit images in a chat format. In my testing, I found that the images look more realistic than ChatGPT, and the characters stay more consistent.

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I find ChatGPT image generation frustrating. Sometimes it works great, but other times I struggle with details in scenes.

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