India, Nov. 26 -- WhenHarveen Singh Chadha opened the Gemini app last week, he wasn't trying to start a national conversation. But by the time he hit publish on his X post showcasing eerily realistic fake PAN and Aadhaar cards, generated using Google's new Nano Banana Pro AI update, he had done just that.

The digital proof of identity in India may never look the same again.

Nano Banana Pro, Google's much-anticipated update to the Gemini image generation engine, landed with impressive new powers. It promised smarter editing, crisper design output, and a better understanding of prompts. What no one quite expected was how effective it would be at replicating sensitive government-issued ID cards with such uncanny precision.

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