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Nano Banana Pro: Infinite Recursion Too Deep for GPT-5

Nano Banana’s 1998 infinite recursion stuns even GPT-5—try it before Gemini grabs the last 7 %

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Meng Li
Nov 26, 2025
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Guess what? Nano Banana’s new trick is like Louis XVI—you can’t see where it ends.

When I opened my eyes today, I discovered the Pro version had dropped us into the world of infinite recursion, be like:

r/ChatGPT - Nano Banana (Gemini 3) prompt gone infinite: 1998 artist painting the exact photo he's looking at... brain.exe stopped

Question: Which came first, this photograph or this oil painting?

To create this image, the prompt needed is very simple:

An amateur photography work from 1998. In the frame, a middle-aged artist is manually copying an image from a computer screen onto a stretched oil canvas, but this image is actually a photograph of the artist painting this very recursive image.

The original creator of this photo, Reddit user r/ChatGPT, exclaimed repeatedly that the image created by Nano Banana Pro truly amazed him—

The glow from the old-style monitor, the paint splattered below the canvas, and that disposable camera timestamp in the bottom right corner... r/ChatGPT spent 20 minutes zooming in to appreciate this image like examining a masterpiece painting.

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