Nano Banana Pro, nearly a year old, still beats ChatGPT Images 2.5 at photorealism
flowersslop · x · 2026-10-12
- flowersslop compared Nano Banana Pro against ChatGPT Images 2.5 with identical prompts and reference images and finds the year-old Google model clearly wins at photorealistic portraits.
- Key difference: NB Pro nails the candid "iPhone photo" look — skin detail, sharpness, natural imperfections — while ChatGPT output shows the unmistakable AI aesthetic: excessive detail, bokeh, engagement-maxxing polish.
- ChatGPT tracks the reference face slightly better, but mostly by copy-pasting it; NB Pro genuinely approximates it.
- The community splits into two camps: fans of hyperdetailed, high-CTR thumbnail-style AI look vs. those who want images that pass as real photos. Author says most people wouldn't clock the NB Pro ones as AI.
- The comparison surfaced as an OpenAI team member actively solicited image-quality feedback for model improvements.
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