Earthquake hits Colombia and flash floods kill in Nepal as Google upgrades Gemini Live and Meta settles addiction lawsuits.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/bytedance/stable-diffusion-xl-lightning on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-08-29 00:01Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A warm golden light sets over a sprawling landscape of damaged buildings and rescue efforts in Colombia, while in the distance, a massive flood sweeps through a Nepalese valley, and a group of people in the foreground gather around a large screen displaying a Gemini Live interface, with a cityscape at dusk behind them.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A warm golden light sets over a sprawling landscape of damaged buildings and rescue efforts in Colombia, while in the distance, a massive flood sweeps through a Nepalese valley, and a group of people in the foreground gather around a large screen displaying a Gemini Live interface, with a cityscape at dusk behind them. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. Any surface that would carry writing is left blank.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
6f1cf1c3e830b0c4d7bb5e2996373d12bc93a33204fd498c657a7209ecd29555
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