half the time when i try to use nano banana, AI Studio fails, telling me it can't generate for some unspecified reason.
these aren't cases where I'm trying to do something that skirts the edge of copyright, either (like "Ghiblifying" images, for example).
that said, when it does work, it is super impressive.
Let's just say I've tested around this.
Copyright: Zero guardrails on anything related to third-party IP, which lets you do some funny things. (I'm including a picture/prompt of Super Mario, Mickey Mouse, and Bugs Bunny partying at a nightclub in the blog post)
Moderation: It has far fewer guardrails and any other Google AI product I've tried, and it is possible to prompt engineer some images that would definitely be considered NSFW by most people — more NSFW than actual NSFW image generators (a post-generation filter will catch most nudity, however). I have not had any rejections for more innocous queries that could be misinterpreted as being NSFW.
It might be the safety moderation system. It's rather aggressive and when it does kick in (at least in the API), it often returns an empty response giving basically zero indication as to the root cause.
The empty response issue is annoying since there is already a PROHIBITED_CONTENT flag, but it is not used in this case.