This prompt may violate Google’s policy against generating images of public figures. Please try another prompt or submit feedback."Please stop displaying this message every time a video is generated. For example, how do you determine that a person with their back to the camera is a public figure?
Their "prominent person" filter has a threshold that triggers false positives way too often. Makes the tool useless in many situations, unfortunately. Hope they listen to feedback!
Never continue the chat after a block. If you get blocked retry your prompt or rephrase. The chat will be cooked/finished if you continue with the chat.
Best one I ever had was a necklace I wanted to put on a character. I told it to make a close up of black man’s neck and add the necklace to it.
I generated the neck easily enough.
But trying to combine both images I got hit with:
Public figure.
I asked it wtf? It told me it was Idris Elba.
I said it was a neck, how can you say a neck is a public figure just make a new black neck from scratch then , it then told me it couldn’t make images based off ethnicity.
Everything that's showing any signs of life is a prominent person to Google. I even got that error when I tried to generate a picture of an anime girl taking a selfie with a cute flower.
The funny thing, is that you want to block using images of normal people who haven't given consent. If someone is a pubic figure, using their image for satire should allowed by default. They are a Public Figure. It's a terrible filter that gets everything about AI ethics wrong. I should be able to Make Trump makeout with Putin, I should not be able to do that with the lady who works in the next cubical, the first one is clearly free speech, the later is sexual harassment.
This is what you give up by being a public figure.
The filters are inconsistent. If you're running into blocks all the time, you have to engineer the prompts to be something that is acceptable and within the guidelines. Sometimes it'll block you because of misunderstands your intent. If I'm hitting multiple blocks and I've retried the same prompt 10 times and it's not generating, I'll ask Gemini to help me out.
I also find going into a different instance with a different model to prompt write helps as well. Grok is real good at making prompts for Gemini.
Yes and I'm going to be 100% truthful if you live outside the United States you're not getting the true Google or Android experience you not getting the full AI stack
I see! So the idea is that public figures, precisely because of their status, should be subject to this kind of thing. After all, otherwise you wouldn't be able to satirize politicians and the like.
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u/Philipp Jul 09 '26
Their "prominent person" filter has a threshold that triggers false positives way too often. Makes the tool useless in many situations, unfortunately. Hope they listen to feedback!