Featured Image Credit: Nano Banana
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Google, Social Media, Technology, Photography
Britt Jones
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Google, Social Media, Technology, Photography
AI has officially ruined the age of needing photos as proof, say social media users who have seen a new example of what the technology can do.
What’s the point in taking pictures, considering you can generate one in moments? Well, that’s the issue that’s been going around on social media.
There has been such a controversy surrounding AI for some time, with a generated actress spelling the start of the end of humans in movies, to a company that can create your deceased loved ones, so you can talk to them.
However, now it seems to be taking over the simple act of snapping a quick picture.
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While you might think the image on the right is just a snap of a woman sitting and enjoying herself at a swanky bar, both images are actually totally generated by Nano Banana and Nano Banana Pro subscription services.
The X user claimed the image shows that technology has come so far that it now is impossible to tell what’s real and what’s fake.
He wrote: “And just like that, the age of photographic evidence is over. 1826-2025. Update your epistemology accordingly.”
The Nana Banana service is part of Google’s offering as part of its Gemini 2.5 and 3 model.
The company revealed in its November 20 announcement that Nana Banana Pro- which looks almost exactly like a photograph- can ‘generate more accurate, context-rich visuals based on enhanced reasoning, world knowledge and real-time information’.
It shared: “Nano Banana Pro is the best model for creating images with correctly rendered and legible text directly in the image, whether you’re looking for a short tagline, or a long paragraph.”
Of course, some people were a little worried, like this user who wrote: “There needs to be a federal law that ai generated content be watermarked. It is imperative that this happen soon.”
Others disagreed. In fact, one woman said she hopes AI’s ability to render lifelike images 'kills social media soon’ as it ‘would be healthier for humanity’.
Another denied that AI has gotten so good that it could fool anyone into believing an image was real, stating: “I think we very much remain in the age of photographic evidence.”
But how do we know if it’s Artificial Intelligence or not?
According to some, there are signs.
One person wrote: “While hard to notice at a first glance, there are still clear tells that an image is AI. It remains to be seen if those will be entirely removed in 2026 or soon.”
Another claimed: “You can still tell these are AI. The hands, and the ceiling foreshortening.”
UNILAD reached out to Google for comment.