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Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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1092 points meetpateltech | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 14:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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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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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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1. 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.