What Scaling Doesn't Buy: Peeling Back the Hype on Google's Trendy Nano Banana
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And about removing the "scaling does" part: (1) it's Gary Marcus, so the point is surely and factually about the "does not" part, and (2) my reading of the article did not show any relevant "does" part.
Normally I also note the edits in the title, as in:
# What scaling_ doesn’t buy_: peeling back the hype [on] Google‘s trendy Nano Banana
but on this occasion I thought it was not worth it.
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