By Ej Dickson
Publication Date: 2026-04-21 11:00:00
How many medical ones Student, Sam was broke.
The 22-year-old aspiring orthopedic surgeon from northern India received some money from his parents, but he says he spent most of it on funding his licensing exams and that he was still saving to hopefully emigrate to the United States after he graduates. So he started looking for ways to make extra money online.
Sam, who requested a pseudonym so as not to jeopardize his medical career and immigration status, tried a few things, with varying degrees of legitimacy and success. He made YouTube short films and sold study notes to other medical students. It wasn’t until he started scrolling through his Instagram feed that an idea occurred to him: Why not create an AI-generated girl using Google Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro and sell bikini photos of her online?
But when Sam started posting generic photos of a beautiful, scantily clad woman on Instagram, he was dismayed to find that none of it was getting traction. He turned to Gemini for advice. “If you have a…
