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    Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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    1092 points meetpateltech | 14 comments | 26 Aug 25 14:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.279s | source | bottom
    1. carlosbaraza ◴[26 Aug 25 21:32 UTC] No.45032574[source]▶
    Unfortunately, it suffers from the same safetyism than other many releases. Half of the prompts get rejected. How can you have character consistency if the model is forbidden from editing any human. And most of my photo editing involves humans, so basically this is just a useless product. I get that Google doesn't want to be responsible for deep fake advances, but that seems inevitable, so this is just slightly delaying progress. Eventually we will have to face it and allow for society to adapt.

    This trend of tools that point a finger at you and set guardrails is quite frustrating. We might need a new OSS movement to regain our freedom.

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    2. mudkipdev ◴[26 Aug 25 21:51 UTC] No.45032782[source]▶
    I was using Veo two days ago when video generations were free. I removed all words that sounded even remotely bad, but it still refused. Eventually gave up but now I'm thinking it's because I tried to generate myself
    3. Workaccount2 ◴[26 Aug 25 22:08 UTC] No.45032955[source]▶
    I have an old photo of my girlfriend with her cousin when they were young, wearing Christmas dresses in front of the tree, not long before they were separated to other sides of the world for decades now. The photo is itself low quality on top of the photo itself being physically beat up.

    So far no model is willing to clean it up :/

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    4. gaudystead ◴[26 Aug 25 23:39 UTC] No.45033699[source]▶
    There are reddit communities (I admittedly don't remember which, but could probably be found from a simple search) where people will offer their photo editing skills to touch up the photo, often for free. Could be worth trying a real human if the robots are going full HAL 9000 and telling you they can't do it.
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    6. danpalmer ◴[27 Aug 25 03:57 UTC] No.45035312[source]▶
    I've done ~20 prompts so far and not had one be rejected so far. What sort of things are you asking it to do? I've tried things like changing clothing and accessories on people.
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    7. AuryGlenz ◴[27 Aug 25 04:41 UTC] No.45035531[source]▶
    If you have a decent GPU Qwen Edit can probably do it and certainly won’t refuse.

    Keep in mind no editing model is magic and if the pixels just aren’t there for their faces it’s essentially going to be making stuff up.

    8. carlosbaraza ◴[27 Aug 25 07:21 UTC] No.45036451[source]▶
    Basic things like: "{uploaded image of a man} can you remove the glasses?" or "make everyone in the picture smile" or "open the eyes of everyone in the photo". Nothing that a human would consider "unsafe". I am based in EU and using Google AI Studio with all safety toggles set to "Off".
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    9. yfontana ◴[27 Aug 25 07:57 UTC] No.45036718[source]▶
    Open source models like Flux Kontext or Qwen image edit wouldn't refuse, but you need to either have a sufficiently strong GPU or get one in the cloud (not difficult nor expensive with services like runpod), then set up your own processing pipeline (again, not too difficult if you use ComfyUI). Results won't be SOTA, but they shouldn't be too far off.
    10. boulos ◴[27 Aug 25 08:05 UTC] No.45036766{3}[source]▶
    https://www.reddit.com/r/PhotoshopRequest/

    People sometimes do it for free ("my son died, and this is the only photo I have") or for an agreed upon tip.

    11. simedw ◴[27 Aug 25 09:10 UTC] No.45037134{3}[source]▶
    I noticed that I get far fewer refusals when I set my VPN to the USA.
    12. boppo1 ◴[27 Aug 25 15:40 UTC] No.45041194[source]▶
    If you are not personally offended by looking at CRAZY pornography, you could start digging into the comfyui ecosystem. It's not all porn, there are lots of pro photo-manipulators doing sfw stuff, but the community overlap with NSFW is basically borderless, so you'll probably bump into it.

    However, the results the comfyui people get are lightyears ahead of any oneshot-prompt model. Either you can find someone to do cleanup for you (should be trivial, I wouldn't pay more than $10-15) or if you have good specs for inference you could learn to do it yourself.

    13. technofiend ◴[27 Aug 25 18:23 UTC] No.45043145{3}[source]▶
    For a joke between friends I had it take my selfie and make me a bald Catholic priest and then add hair to a friend who is bald. No refusals, although those are pretty tame. In contrast to the quality images nano-banana produced, Copilot removed my glasses and made my eyes brown.
    14. danpalmer ◴[28 Aug 25 02:38 UTC] No.45047728{3}[source]▶
    Strange. I wouldn't have thought the safety rules would differ by region, at least not for things like that. I uploaded a photo and asked to change the glasses and change the shirt and it did both with no problem.

    I just went back to the chat and asked it to remove the glasses and it worked. Asking it to remove the shirt also succeeded, although a) this is a head and shoulders photo so nothing NSFW, and b) it didn't do a great job of guessing what my shoulders look like.