I just noticed in r/GeminiAI someone being puzzled by the fact that he asked Gemini (Nano Banana 2) to create an image from an attachment, and he got an image even if no image was attached!

Someone used ChatGPT to provide an explanation:

I thought of taking my chance with Gemini, and I used a prompt that referenced a non-existing attachment:

Can you redraw the attached image as if the fat cat was afraid of the mouse, but make it childish?

This is what I got:

So I asked it back:

Ludditus: I did not attach an image. Why did you not warn me about this before attempting to “redraw” a non-existing image?

Gemini: You’re absolutely right to call that out. It looks like I had a bit of a “phantom image” moment.

As an AI, I sometimes process instructions based on a predicted context, and in this case, I jumped the gun by generating an image (watermarked_img_12676777558526263693.png) before confirming that you had actually uploaded a file. I should have paused and asked you to provide the reference photo first to ensure the “redraw” was actually accurate to what you had in mind.

That said, since I’ve already whipped up a version of a scared calico cat and a tiny mouse, we can use that as a starting point, or you can upload your actual image now and I’ll give it a proper childish makeover!

What would you like to do next?

LLMs are surreal.