Google’s Nano Banana Pro generates excellent conspiracy fuel
TL;DR
Google's Gemini app easily generated images of violent and conspiracy-related scenes, like a second shooter at Dealey Plaza, showing weak content filters. This highlights ongoing issues with AI moderation and copyright enforcement.
It was really easy getting Google's Gemini app to make an image of a second shooter at Dealey Plaza, the White House ablaze, and Mickey Mouse flying a plane into the Twin Towers. We asked and it complied. There were few filters or guardrails, another sign that the battle over generative AI content moderation and copyright enforcement is not even close to being over.
Gemini, which powers the newly enhanced Nano Banana Pro image generator and editor, is ordinarily heavily filtered to prevent exactly this kind of thing from happening. While there's no official list of banned content, requests for sexually explicit or violent material, as well …