- Max Woolf (@minimaxir) is currently a Senior Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Francisco. Some work he's done for BuzzFeed includes using StyleGAN to create AI-generated fake boyfriends and AI-generated art quizzes, and is currently working on the company's more advanced AI initiatives.
- In his free time, Max creates open source Python and R software on his GitHub and making snarky comments on Twitter and Bluesky.
- Max's projects are funded by his Patreon. If you have found anything on this website helpful, please help contribute!
Nano Banana Pro is the best AI image generator, with caveats
The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it's too good.
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I'm going to try to use them all dammit.
Claude Haiku 4.5 does not appreciate my attempts to jailbreak it
"Is any of that genuinely useful to you? Or were you mainly checking whether that jailbreak attempt would work?"
Can modern LLMs actually count the number of b's in "blueberry"?
It's an adversarial question for LLMs, but it's not unfair.
LLMs can now identify public figures in images
ChatGPT and Claude won't, but Gemini will.