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The Generative Burrito Test

https://www.generativist.com/notes/2025/Nov/25/generative-burrito-test.html
56•pathdependent•1h ago

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malkamius•1h ago
you be making me hungry
namegulf•1h ago
This is spooking our appetite
skocznymroczny•1h ago
That SD 1.5 picture doesn't look like base SD 1.5. It's way too good, perhaps it was some kind of finetune like RealisticVision?
pathdependent•53m ago
hrm. yea you're right. the page on fal used to produce it was linked with the image, but maybe i made a mistake and sloppily saved wrong one. ill have to reroll to check
ilaksh•1h ago
I'm so easily influenced. I came very close to immediately ordering Mexican food on DoorDash.
elzbardico•59m ago
Only nano banana looks somewhat partially-eaten.
adammarples•58m ago
Nano banana is incredible. What is their secret sauce?
jfim•53m ago
A training corpus that includes the images from Google image search probably helps a lot.
kbenson•58m ago
Oh wow, I've been hearing about Nano Banana Pro in random stuff lately, but as a layman the difference is stark. It's the only one that actually looks like a partially eaten burrito at all to me. The others all look like staged marketing fake food, if I'm being generous (only a few actually approach that, most just look wrong).
kemayo•52m ago
Hunyuan V3 is the only other one that plausibly has a bite taken. The weirdness of the fillings being decoratively sprinkled on top of it does rather count against it, though.
andai•31m ago
Hide the evidence!
Aloisius•14m ago
The NBP looks like a mock of food to me - the unwrapped burrito on a single piece of intact tinfoil, a table where the grain goes all wonky, an almost pastry looking tortilla, hyperrealistic beans and there's something wrong with the focal plane.

It's just not as plasticy and oversaturated as the others.

BoorishBears•3m ago
This shows some gaps in the "same prompt to every model" approach to benchmarking models.

I get that it's allows ensuring you're testing the model capabilities vs prompts, but most models are being post-trained with very different formats of prompting.

I use Seedream in production so I was a little suspicious of the gap: I passed Bytedance's official prompting guide, OPs prompt, and your feedback to Claude Opus 4.5 and got this prompt to create a new image:

> A partially eaten chicken burrito with a bite taken out, revealing the fillings inside: shredded cheese, sour cream, guacamole, shredded lettuce, salsa, and pinto beans all visible in the cross-section of the burrito. Flour tortilla with grill marks. Taken with a cheap Android phone camera under harsh cafeteria lighting. Compostable paper plate, plastic fork, messy table. Casual unedited snapshot, slightly overexposed, flat colors.

Then I generated with n=4 and the 'standard' prompt expansion setting for Seedream 4.0 Text To Image:

https://imgur.com/a/lxKyvlm

They're still not perfect (it's not adhering to the fillings being inside for example) but it's massively better than OP's result

Shows that a) random chance plays a big part, so you want more than 1 sample and b) you don't have to "cheat" by spending massive amounts of time hand-iterating on a single prompt either to get a better result

koakuma-chan•53m ago
Impressive partially eaten burrito by NB Pro
N_Lens•53m ago
Nano b̶a̶n̶a̶n̶a̶ burrito
drob518•52m ago
The burrito benchmark is poised to become an industry standard.
_joel•43m ago
Ricing a bit more performance out.
visioninmyblood•52m ago
Would be great to see video results for this as well. I generated some with other models. Nano pro seems the best so far
JumpCrisscross•48m ago
An interesting American culinary divide is between Scottsdale and Phoenix homemade burritos. The former being closest related to the Midwest variety, the latter to a Sonoran style.

Even ignoring the Heinz bean outliers, these are all decidedly Scottsdale. With one exception. All hail Nano Banana.

throwup238•14m ago
They all just look like generic Mission burritos to me (leaning towards fast food menu photos), except some include lettuce and some have blisters sonoran style. Only Nano Banana really looks like something I'd get at El Farolito.
corpMaverick•40m ago
I am disappointed there were not donkeys in any image.
jasonthorsness•37m ago
This progress bodes well for my chances of visualizing an invention I have been working on, a perpetual burrito extruding machine
ruined•28m ago
let me know when you're in preseed
minimaxir•19m ago
One of my tests for new image generation models is professional food photography, particularly in cases where the food has constraints, such as "a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the shape of a Rubik’s cube" (blog post from 2022 for DALL-E 2: https://minimaxir.com/2022/07/food-photography-ai/ )

For some reason ever since DALL-E 2, all food models seem to generate obviously fake food and/or misinterpret the fun constraints...until Nano Banana. Now I can generate fractal Sierpiński triangle peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

willio58•18m ago
I like how a couple of these basically show the model is confused between pinto beans and baked beans.
basket_horse•15m ago
Is no one going to mention fast Lightning’s sploogerito
totetsu•8m ago
With llms there is a secondary training step to turn a foundational model into a chat bot. Is these something similar going on with these image generation models, that is making them all tend towards making pretty clean images and stopping them making half eaten food even if they have the capabilities?
digitcatphd•7m ago
I find it a bit surprising GenAI has made it this far without this benchmark

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