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1092 points meetpateltech | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 14:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | 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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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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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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1. danpalmer ◴[28 Aug 25 02:38 UTC] No.45047728[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.