{"id":23142,"date":"2025-09-15T11:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23142"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:27:30","slug":"ruining-art-with-nano-banana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/15\/ruining-art-with-nano-banana\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ruining&#8221; art with Nano Banana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>But, y&#8217;know, in a fun &amp; cheeky way. \ud83d\ude42 Check out this little iterative experiment from Ethan Mollick:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ruining art with Gemini 2.5 Flash. (These are all the prompts, in their entirety)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;make this painting less gloomy&#8221;<br>&#8220;it is still pretty disturbing, make it less gloomy emotionally&#8221;<br>&#8220;even less gloomy&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IYrItsAGFw\">pic.twitter.com\/IYrItsAGFw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ethan Mollick (@emollick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emollick\/status\/1960717000092549349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>As a longtime Bosch enthusiast, I&#8217;m partial to this one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Happy-Bosch.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"796\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Happy-Bosch-1024x796.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Happy-Bosch-1024x796.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Happy-Bosch-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Happy-Bosch-768x597.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Happy-Bosch.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reminds me of the time in 2023 (i.e. 10,000 AI years ago) that I forced DALL\u2022E to keep making images look more &amp; more &#8220;cheugy&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And finally;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAwesome! Can we see post-apocalyptic levels of \u2018cheugy\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The End. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4wgAj5fkYF\">pic.twitter.com\/4wgAj5fkYF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Nack (@jnack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnack\/status\/1735302383000060095?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But, y&#8217;know, in a fun &amp; cheeky way. \ud83d\ude42 Check out this little iterative experiment from Ethan Mollick: Ruining art with Gemini 2.5 Flash. (These are all the prompts, in their entirety) &#8220;make this painting less gloomy&#8221;&#8220;it is still pretty disturbing, make it less gloomy emotionally&#8221;&#8220;even less gloomy&#8221; pic.twitter.com\/IYrItsAGFw \u2014 Ethan Mollick (@emollick) August 27, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23145,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142\/revisions\/23145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}