Imagen 3 is Google’s AI image generator, which was announced back in May at the company’s I/O developer conference. It launched in a limited capacity in the US in August but became available to free Gemini users last month. I’ve been using it ever since to create all sorts of images, and while it’s an impressive tool overall, it does have several limitations that hinder the overall experience.
Here’s where Imagen 3 struggles
The first limit to be aware of is that you can’t generate images of people, at least with a free Gemini account. This doesn’t just apply to creating images of famous people, which not many image-generating tools allow for anyway, but people in general. So a prompt like, “create an image of two random people dancing” will not return any results. For reference, ChatGPT also has this limit in place for its free tier.