I couldn’t have contrived a better example of the power & pitfalls of generative imaging if I tried.
Here’s a pretty crummy cell phone picture I took yesterday from a moving train & then enhanced with a single prompt using Gemini. The results are incredible—if you don’t really care about the exact capacity of your jumbo jet! 🙂
The current state of AI-driven editing drives home the wisdom of that old Russian staying, “Trust… but verify.”
This also highlights the subtle treachery of AI photography: look how it shortened the 747! pic.twitter.com/Yga5oo1D0B
— John Nack (@jnack) February 27, 2026
See also my previously shared example, in which Nano Banana quietly upgraded this propeller-driven plane into a jet:
Testing fence removal on my son’s photo using @NanoBanana, @ChatGPTapp, and @bfl_ml.
They’re all impressive, but Nano tried to put jet engines on this prop plane, so I’m giving this round to ChatGPT. pic.twitter.com/DOvZQLT5H5
— John Nack (@jnack) December 23, 2025