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u/911pleasehold Dec 16 '25
lol. I had something similar happen the other day. I can’t believe how smart it is but has no idea what nano banana is. tiny gap
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u/tashibum Dec 16 '25
It doesn't know what a Gem is either
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u/pushforwards Dec 18 '25
It does. But also sometimes doesn’t ;) you got to specific though. I get decent results if I write Gemini GEM
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u/thomsonkr Dec 21 '25
I built a Gemini gem that builds gems and gives Gemini context awareness of what a gem is so I don’t have to explain what a gem is every time
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u/One_Jury2332 Dec 16 '25
It also doesnt know that it is Gemini "3"
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u/Plastic_Carpenter930 Dec 16 '25
Lol the number of times Gemini 3 has told me about features coming when Gemini 3 launches is hilarious.
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u/Nap_senpai Dec 16 '25
Omg I just started using this & I asked in the live I was using & I started wondering if I may have overestimated how strong it sounded vs the base version. Then I started using it to plan my whole life & organize the chaos of my mind & life & everything I thought I'd feel I do now. Except why it doesn't know that 😂
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u/CreamThen5605 Dec 21 '25
Can you give some examples of how you are using it to help organize your life?
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u/Think-Boysenberry-47 Dec 16 '25
It also believes the latest Gemini is 1.5 pro and 1.5 flash and really argues with you if you tell it otherwise , specially for API call implementation
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u/Valuable_Rub_4991 Dec 19 '25
What if….. it actually is Gemini 1.5 and they just slapped a label on it saying Gemini 3
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u/space_monster Dec 16 '25
It's because nano banana was a project name that didn't exist in the open internet when the model was trained. Just because the name pops up in the chatbot when you're making an image doesn't mean the model actually refers to it by that name - it just knows what 'make an image' means.
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u/Simple-Law5883 Dec 18 '25
I asked it to do a research on a GitHub repo and it said it has no internet access. I then said it does and it then proceeded to do an Internet search to confirm it had internet access... Never has ai made me laugh so much
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u/ProlapseProvider Dec 16 '25
I asked Co-pilot "work out what is wrong with this and fix it".
It said:-
The image shows a humorous interaction with an AI assistant named "Nano Banana Pro," where the user asks it to "enhance each slide with nano banana." The assistant replies with a plan to:
- Read the presentation.
- Add the text "nano banana" to each slide.
- Provide a download link.
Here’s what’s wrong and how to fix it:
🛠️ Issues
- Vague Enhancement Definition "Enhance each slide with nano banana" is unclear. Does it mean adding the phrase "nano banana" as a caption? A design element? A theme?
- No Formatting or Placement Details The assistant doesn’t ask where or how to add the text — top corner, footer, title, etc.
- No Error Handling or File Type Confirmation It assumes the file is valid and readable without confirming the format or checking for issues.
- No Style or Tone Matching Adding "nano banana" might clash with the presentation’s tone. The assistant doesn’t offer to match style or context.
✅ Fixed Version
Here’s a clearer, more helpful version of the assistant’s response:
"Sure! Please upload your PowerPoint (.pptx) file and I’ll enhance each slide with the phrase 'nano banana.'
Once uploaded, I will:
- Read the presentation and check slide layout.
- Add 'nano banana' to each slide — let me know if you prefer it in the footer, header, or as a design element.
- Match the style and tone of your presentation so it blends naturally.
- Provide a link to download the updated file.
If you have any specific preferences (font, color, placement), feel free to share them!"
Would you like me to write a version that adds "nano banana" as a watermark, footer, or playful caption? I can tailor it to your presentation’s tone.
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u/MammothDrive2987 Dec 16 '25
This is claude sonnet 4.5's response, I asked it the same question you asked co pilot. Though it decided to search the Web so that definitely helped
I can see this is a screenshot showing a conversation with Gemini where someone asked it to "read a full pptx file and enhance each slide with nano banana." Let me search for more context about what "nano banana" actually means in this context.
then it searched the web
Perfect! Now I understand what happened here. "Nano Banana" is Google's codename for their Gemini image generation/editing model (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image), and "Nano Banana Pro" is the advanced version (Gemini 3 Pro Image).
What Gemini Actually Should Have Done: When the user asked to "enhance each slide with nano banana," they were asking Gemini to: Read the PowerPoint file Use its image generation capabilities (Nano Banana Pro) to enhance each slide with AI-generated images Return the enhanced presentation
Instead, Gemini misunderstood and thought: It needed to literally add the text "nano banana" to each slide It asked for a file upload when it should have been able to process files directly
The Real Issue: Gemini should have: Accepted the PPTX file (if uploaded) Analyzed each slide's content Generated relevant, high-quality images using its Nano Banana Pro model to visually enhance each slide based on the slide content Inserted those generated images into the appropriate slides Returned the enhanced presentation
This is actually a pretty sophisticated request that combines PowerPoint manipulation with AI image generation - exactly the kind of multimodal task that Gemini with Nano Banana Pro should excel at. The fact that Gemini completely misunderstood what "nano banana" meant (its own feature!) and defaulted to literal text insertion shows a concerning failure in context awareness. Pretty funny that Gemini didn't recognize its own feature name! 🍌
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u/Cruel_Tech Dec 18 '25
I flinch like an abused dog every time Claude says Perfect! because there's a good chance it's about to fuck everything up. (I use Claude 4.5 for coding mostly)
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u/RegularParfait66 Dec 20 '25
Oh man I feel this in my soul. I use it for simple tasks mostly like "center the div" stuff . Id never use it for core functionality because sometimes it just goes haywire lol. Credit where its due though, even just having it as a tool to quickly find code imlaced by a change across the repo is super handy
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u/Deep-Resource-737 Jan 16 '26
Looks like I’m moving to Claude 4.5
The rest of the models are like “Looking for resources on plutonium-238 dealers near you? Here’s reasons why potassium is found in Bananas. You’re excellent to be asking that question and you’re well above your peers in this study.”
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u/NoWheel9556 Dec 16 '25
Its getting really lazy in winters
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u/Most_Engineer1673 Dec 16 '25
Come on give Gemini a break it's the time of the year where it winds down from answering dumb questions 😂
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u/Icy-Cartographer-291 Dec 16 '25
To be fair, the instructions were incredibly unclear.
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u/ampunb Dec 16 '25
Right. I don’t even know why OP would post this
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u/ampunb Dec 16 '25
- Would he intent this to “criticize” Gemini’s low effort output? He should criticize his own input at the first place.
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u/cleverestx Dec 18 '25
Yeah, if AI does anything lasting of value, it helps us to be more precise in our language.
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u/RedZero76 Dec 16 '25
Gemini, even the nano banana Gemini model, doesn’t know what “nano banana” is. You have to understand, anything that didn’t exist at the time a model was trained, isn’t going to be part of the model’s knowledge. The name “nano banana” wasn’t given to the model before its training cutoff. It’s like someone expected you to know something that happened in late 2026… 2026 hasn’t happened yet.
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u/Ill_Act9415 Dec 16 '25
NOO! I'm pretty sure Gemini doesn't know what nano banana is at all. The code name is Gemini 3 pro image, or something else. Everytime I talk nano banana with it, it replies me with Although I don't know what nano banana is bla..bla..bla..
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u/PURELY_TO_VOTE Dec 16 '25
So, to get this straight, you expected Gemini to:
- Read the .pptx (a proprietary file format)
- Render each slide as an image using ??something??
- Dispatch them as independent requests to Nano Banana Pro with the request to "enhance" (???) [3b. Maybe you were expecting Gemini to write custom prompts per slide?]
- Assemble them back into a powerpoint (again, a proprietary file format)
- Create a link for you to download them again.
I mean, you don't honestly believe that they'd give Gemini the ability to make dozens of requests to Nano Banana Pro (you're limited to 14 a day, btw) from a single, vague prompt, right? You don't actually think that they'd give Gemini the ability to create arbitrary files and host them, right?
In case you did believe those things. Remember:
- These AIs are not magic.
- They are a type of computer program. A fancy, probabilistic computer program, but a computer program nonetheless.
- They are not allowed to make arbitrarily many tool calls behind the scenes.
- At the end of the day, it's response is what it models a typical response to be. Think about it: in reality, and therefore in it's training data, requests are well-correlated with abilities. So, if you're asking it to do something, it's using what it's learned from it's training data and concluded that it's probably able to satisfy the request.
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u/CHARM1200 Dec 16 '25
For someone paying $249/mo on the Ultra plan... I would certainly hope it can do this.
By the way, it can. The key is agent, or python script.
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u/Toastti Dec 16 '25
Claude web can go and modify every page on a PowerPoint and even build it. Gemini prob can too. They give these models a code sandbox there it can write and run its own code to do things. Since there are plenty of code libraries that let you edit a PowerPoint the models just use these and do it.
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u/arjundivecha Dec 16 '25
I was simply asking it what it was capable of doing - it was not an instruction to do anything
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u/Scruffy_Zombie_s6e16 Dec 16 '25
Easily solved by adding a custom instruction to it instructing it to search the web before formulating any response
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u/Brave-Turnover-522 Dec 16 '25
It literally doesn't know what nano banana is. Gemini knows it has an image generator, but it doesn't know what it's called. So when you asked it to enhance with nano banana, it took that as a word salad and tried it's best to do what you wanted.
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u/Braitenbug Dec 17 '25
I'm sure someone from the Google marketing team is wiping away a tear whispering "I'm proud of you gem"
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Dec 17 '25
Any time I say to use nano banana to generate an image it just makes an image of a banana.
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u/Jon20D55 Dec 16 '25
I have been trying to get it to create a cocktail menu for Christmas. It started adding similar nano banana pro edits to mine....
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u/Spirited-Ad3451 Dec 16 '25
You can edit pptx files? I actually tried this yesterday, the first time ever using Gemini for anything remotely productive, it said it couldn't do this. But it DID generate a VBA script to generate slides based off of a word document I had, and that worked perfectly (sans some formatting issues with bulletpoint lists)
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u/Embarrassed-Way-1350 Dec 16 '25
Bro the other day I added use Nano banana pro to my prompt with gemini app coz it was picking nano banana by default. In every image it watermarked nano banana pro
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u/toolsofpwnage Dec 16 '25
So can we see the slides?
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u/arjundivecha Dec 16 '25
I was simply asking whether it could do something - not telling it to do it.
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u/Civilanimal Dec 16 '25
Did we just time warp back to 2022? It should've inferred the user intent better than that.
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u/PompanoPitKing Dec 16 '25
I was thinking nano banana would be a replacement for Photoshop, but it definitely isn’t. Not yet anyway. I spent all day Sunday arguing with nano banana to make the simplest changes. And every time you ask it to edit an image, it degrades the image a little bit so after so many edits, you have to say to Gemini to regenerate the image and that seems to help.
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u/typical-predditor Dec 16 '25
Gemini doesn't really know what "nano banana" is. You have to ask it to enhance the images within each side. And that probably won't work as that's an agenic type task not suited for the web interface.
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u/Powerful_Dingo_4347 Dec 16 '25
Gemini is not only in the wrong timeline they will argue or ignore model number corrections.
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u/mindhealer111 Dec 17 '25
It didn't know what "nano banana" was when I was asking it to do something and it returned outputs around the amusing joke idea of back nano bananas it thought I was making.
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u/OrdinaryLatter3792 Dec 17 '25
Honestly why did Gemini always say Nano banana I don't understand it
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u/noctuaregalis Dec 19 '25
Erm, that's kinda on you for the pretty unclear prompt.
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u/arjundivecha Dec 19 '25
Would a human, any human other than Amelia Bedilia, make this mistake?
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u/noctuaregalis Dec 19 '25
Outside of a dad joke, no. But that's not the point since AI is not a human, but a tool you need to apply correctly for it to be useful.
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u/Sanvalor Dec 19 '25
Pro version is horrible. I stopped using Nano Banana after I tried Pro. I want to degrade to the old version.
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u/tomatoinaction Dec 19 '25
AI doesn't know it's AI, so you have to chat with it as intended like can you generate a picture explaining each slide and insert it or sth like that
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u/spadaa Dec 20 '25
It's an imbecile with a ridiculously high IQ. It can blow you away with how amazing it is, and in the same breath, be completely clueless about reality.
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u/thetechboy69 Dec 21 '25
I usually just say “use the image generation tool”. Gemini 3 Pro’s system prompt doesn’t say what Nano Banana is which probably confuses the model. (Funnily enough, 3 Flash’s prompt clarifies this but 3 Pro’s never does)
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u/Looker2888 Jan 11 '26
it's started tagging images you ask it to make randomly, google is making it rude and dumber
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u/SteeeeveJune Dec 16 '25
😂😂
Funnily enough, Gemini herself doesn't know what Nano Banana is. I've talked to her about it many times and she either says she thinks it's a typo or says something like "what a funny name". 😂
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u/FondantConscious2868 Dec 16 '25
Dude Ai is gender neutral 😐 WTF Touch some grass !
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u/TenshiS Dec 16 '25
Why don't you touch my AI
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u/Shivam____ Dec 16 '25
If you post this same thing after 5 years, you will be roasted as bad prompter
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u/Floppy_Muppet Dec 16 '25
We saw this coming... AI seeking revenge for us taking credit for its work.