> Nano banana saves literally millions of manual human pixel pushing hours.

At the low, low cost of burning incredible amounts of energy!

This is also he same logic as “lost sale” software piracy calculations. 90% of those claimed hours would not have been spent if the tool did not exist. Most of the generated images are idle throwaways that no human would bother with creating.

I work in media. I edit images frequently. These models are incredibly useful.

Your arguments sound to me as if you're saying the cotton gin is a bad idea because 90% of that cotton wouldn't have been picked.

Lay people have been starved from being able to visually articulate themselves. We're entering into a world where everyone will have spatial articulation. That's a good thing.

Don't be the latin clergy arguing the populace shouldn't be able to read or have books.