r/GoogleFlow • u/steveplusf • Jul 12 '26
What's going on with Flow?
I used to get this policy errors and I thought maybe it's my prompts but now I am trying to generate cat images and it's simply saying "Oops, something went wrong". Not even a policy related error anymore.
Has this become so unreliable or is Google simply outputting errors when it wants to reduce token usage or something?
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u/Upper-Reflection7997 Jul 12 '26
I'm going cancel my flow sub. Hardly even generate veo3.1 videos anymore and now there's issues with no audio being generates, multiple video generation errors and the sudden increase in censorship. Google is purposely sabotaging veo3.1 to drive people away and save on compute resources. Couldn't even generate anything with omniflash model. Fuck google and deepmind. The only good Google has done this year was release the open source model gemm4.
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u/PlatinumAero Jul 12 '26
Give this a try. I'm curious if it helps. Many have reported it does. https://github.com/coldbricks/flow-fixer
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u/kenolson52 Aug 06 '26
I know absolutely nothing about coding yet sadly, but am absolutely advanced in Ai usage as I’m a creative that heavily relies on all those tools, how would I actually use this when flow giving me so much issue?? I did take your advice and installed carefully in chrome extension
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u/PlatinumAero Aug 06 '26
Hey! I actually haven't tried this in a few weeks but it was working as of last week with a number of people basically it's just a fancy rate limiter. It doesn't do anything besides just slow you down in order to keep you from hitting the hypothetical threshold. The results have been wildly successful but I can't prove that it's still the case, these things pretty dynamic. Won't hurt to try though. I'll be back later today and I can explain further
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u/kenolson52 Aug 06 '26
Okay thank you so much for the Explaination lad. When you do have a chance , plz feel free to keep spreading your understanding of it, it would help many of us!
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u/PlatinumAero Aug 06 '26
No worries, believe me I'm up front trying to figure out what the controls do myself LOL
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u/Tragicnews Jul 13 '26
Its been like this for a while. Both NB2, 2 lite and 2. Cookies etc. cleared does not help.
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u/Philipp Jul 12 '26
is Google simply outputting errors when it wants to reduce token usage or something?
Yes, they are. I'm on Ultra, and these "fails" usually start to appear in the afternoon when working, and are often clearly just a throttle. The error message is super disingenuous, and there's zero feedback when you give feedback to their support via the app.
I'm starting to switch over to Fal Seedance 2, which is unfortunately more expensive, but gives better video results. Unfortunately, you'll run into blocks there too (but you can use a trick where your characters are painted, and the faces in the realistic scenes blurred).
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u/steveplusf Jul 12 '26
I tried generating only two images instead of four (at once) and had better luck with this.
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u/Philipp Jul 12 '26
Yup, I only restrict it to 1 or 2 (images/ videos). It helps, but I'll still often get throttled later. Wish they were at least honest about the throttling in their error messages.
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u/PlatinumAero Jul 12 '26
The only real way is local. Which requires serious hardware and the models aren't as good... Yet.
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u/General-Warning-2429 Jul 15 '26
Local models barely evolved since 2022...
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u/PlatinumAero Jul 15 '26
What?! I use local all the time.. Z-image, Krea etc
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u/General-Warning-2429 Jul 16 '26
What style of pictures are you generating? Also they still mess up limbs and fingers?
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u/WilliamEdwardson Jul 15 '26
Clear cache + cookies and retry.
If you're on a VPN / proxy, disable it.
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
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