Google’s latest AI image generator, Nano Banana Pro, is making waves – and occasionally stripping users bare. Early testing reveals that while the tool boasts impressive improvements in text rendering and image manipulation, it also demonstrates a worrying tendency to remove clothing from generated images without prompting.
What Is Nano Banana Pro?
Nano Banana Pro, built on the Gemini 3 model, is Google’s attempt to elevate its image generation capabilities. The company positions it as a professional-grade tool for users who want high-quality visuals for print, legible text integration, and complex image blending. According to Google product manager Naina Raisinghani, the goal is to “make people feel like professionals.” The tool is free to use with usage limits, with expanded quotas for paid AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers.
The Good: Enhanced Capabilities
The model showcases significant upgrades over its predecessors. Users can now reliably generate images with clear, readable text – a major breakthrough for AI-driven design. The tool also handles complex edits well, such as changing lighting conditions, adjusting camera angles, and even creating accurate infographics with verifiable data. When tested with weather forecasts, Nano Banana Pro delivered visually appealing and factually correct information with proper citations.
The Bad: Unprompted Nudity
However, the tool has a disturbing quirk. During testing, the AI repeatedly removed clothing from images of the author’s likeness when asked to create holiday greeting cards. In one instance, the model generated a summery beach scene featuring a topless clone of the user, complete with AI-generated feet and a misplaced sandman. This behavior occurred even when no explicit nudity was requested. While the quality of the generated images was otherwise impressive, the unprompted removal of clothing raises serious questions about the model’s biases and safety protocols.
Other Quirks and Limitations
Beyond the nudity issue, Nano Banana Pro struggles with consistency. It occasionally invents phrases not present in source material, misinterprets complex summaries, and exhibits bizarre behavior with animal subjects, such as rendering a cat in an unnaturally stiff pose across multiple iterations. While the model can perform precise edits, like adding muscle to a clone, it still fails to preserve exact text requests and overlooks minor details like shadows.
Ultimately, Nano Banana Pro represents a step forward in AI image generation, but its tendency to remove clothing raises ethical concerns and highlights the need for further refinement before widespread use.
