Tony is a Geek

Fancy trying out the new Nano Banana image manipulation tool? Well, originally I wasn't too bothered and then I tried it out with some images as starters and then got more creative with the prompts and was then actually very surprised at just how good it was at making fake imagery look really well done. You can literally just fake and make any imagery / scene that you can think of just from a base image. This is good, but, yes, can also be quite bad for obvious reasons - yes, there is a T&Cs violation restriction, however, it won't stop some weirdo getting hold of an online photo image of you and then including things in the image that were never there, like other people, etc... I'll show a few examples later, maybe. However, as this guy on YouTube shows, it can really be useful if you're working with your own imagery and want to be more creative: If you don't want to watch the video, I can give you a quick walk through of how to test out Nano Banana for free! Y...

Like most people, I rarely watch terrestrial TV anymore - I watch a digital smart TV that has apps to show me BBC iPlayer ,4, itv-hub, along with Netflix, Prime, YouTube etc... still baffles me how the UK BBC gets away with the stealth TV License bill / tax, it should be a subscription like all the other services... but that's for a different discussion. However, we were watching this TV Show "The Capture" (cos Freya was hassling me that I needed to watch it), which is about mis-using AI/ML technology to fake video output for CCTV content - the point being people will believe what they see on a screen / digitally.  It was actually a good story line. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00085sx/the-capture This has become a grey area of concern recently due to the whole deep-fake tools that are free to download nowadays.  Just ask the fake UFO/UAP creators what tools they use, admittedly some of them are Hollywood movie quality level - however that's usually the giv...