‘Now, almost every image looks flat or cartoonish’: I saw Reddit arguing that Google’s AI image generator had got worse — so I ran my own comparison against ChatGPT

Reddit users have reported a perceived decline in image quality from Google's Nano Banana 2 AI image generator, describing outputs as flat or cartoonish. However, Google has not officially updated Nano Banana 2 since February, and recent changes involve other models or app features, not the image generator itself. Differences may stem from changes in text prompt interpretation rather than the image model.