I Hand-Painted Freckles Because I Care About Verisimilitude (An Update)

Six months ago I asked for a Central Asian woman with deep russet-brown skin and freckles, and Flux handed me a white woman. Repeatedly. So did Grok, Seedream, GPT-2, and MAI—every top-shelf model whitewashing the same prompt to various degrees. Then Google dropped Nano Banana 2 on February 26, and for the first time a model got close enough to argue with instead of throw out. Close enough that I could finish the job by hand: a dozen generations, masked composites, and freckles hand-painted back into pigment in Photoshop. The silicon half of the bias is finally moving. The other half is the part nobody wants to talk about.

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