Overview

• The Nano Banana feature in Google’s Gemini app, based on the Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model, is driving a viral saree-portrait trend that has generated millions of views on Instagram and X, especially in India.
• An Instagram user’s post about a generated image showing a mole not visible in her upload fueled concerns over unexpected inferences, with others reporting similar tattoo details and commenters attributing results to digital footprints.
• Senior police official VC Sajjanar warned users to avoid look‑alike sites and unauthorized apps that seek photos and personal data, citing risks of financial fraud from a single careless click.
• Google says outputs carry visible AI labels and an invisible SynthID watermark, but the detection tool is not publicly available and experts caution that watermarks can be faked, stripped or ignored.
• Safety guidance from news outlets urges selective uploads, removal of metadata, strict privacy settings, retention of originals and, where possible, paid plans that offer more control over data use.