Last Tuesday, I watched my friend Maya break down in tears—the good kind—over a photo on her phone. In the image, her current 35-year-old self was gently embracing her 8-year-old self, both of them sitting on a park bench she remembered from childhood. The lighting was perfect, the emotion was …
Three weeks ago, my friend Priya’s Instagram post got 50,000 likes overnight. Not because she’s an influencer or celebrity—she’s an accountant from Pune. Her secret? She’d used some AI tool called “Nano Banana” to create the most stunning, impossibly perfect image of herself in a traditional Kerala saree, complete with …
Last Durga Puja, my cousin Ananya spent three hours getting ready—perfect makeup, gorgeous red saree, elaborate jewelry—only to end up with photos that looked… well, pretty average. This year, she tried something different. Armed with Nano Banana and some carefully crafted prompts, she created images so stunning that even her …
Three months ago, I asked ChatGPT to help me write a birthday message for my best friend. What I got back was so generic it could’ve been printed on a greeting card from 1995. “Wishing you happiness on your special day…” Seriously? That’s the best a super-intelligent AI could do? …