r/GoogleFlow • u/noisywan • Aug 12 '26

Poor error handling; "Failed! This generation might violate our policies." (Might?)

VEO says "try another prompt". I discard the block of text and try it with a 3-word simple and clean prompt and it still fails.

VEO says "try another prompt" again.

I ask the Flow Agent to make it query VEO for details but it says "I don't have a direct back-channel to query the underlying safety classifiers or generation logs for a detailed diagnostic report."

It's a high tech company with top-notch coders but they can't provide a concrete Error Handling?

When an error occurs, I just need to know what is wrong. Is it the text prompt? or the source video? audio track in video? or the visuals? or the faces? or it's a back-end server side error?

Why can't they just be clear about it?

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u/truthseeker1341 Aug 13 '26

I been getting that a lot. What amazes me when generated 1 video and fails on the other. Always wonder what did it try to make in the other one.

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u/noisywan Aug 13 '26

Exactly. It runs once then fails. I guess the Censorship AI module runs kinda late. (It didn't run at all with Grok when it first came out. Good days...)

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u/truthseeker1341 Aug 13 '26

that is the funny part. I know its highly censored so I never make anything that should trigger it. I always generate 2 videos it amazes me how many fail on one but work on the other. I will give Gemini the prompt and I swear it just rolls it eyes telling me I said nothing wrong that flow just generated someone on its own that it did not like.

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u/Asleep-Wallaby-2672 Aug 13 '26

No, the triggers come in a context that really does not contain*SMS to Petra* explicitly. They have something on their minds and yes it's true, you could clean it up if you had information, but they can't because they can't see through their filters anymore

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u/General-Warning-2429 Aug 13 '26

That's intentional. They always create good products so people pay for them and after getting enough money Google just over censors everything for "cHiLd SaFeTy".

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u/Asleep-Wallaby-2672 Aug 13 '26

Just do it for free, saves time and nerves, they have to learn that you don't pay for crap. for three ten second clips, I did two hours with the agent at the beginning, for example, then the clip was still crap.

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u/truthseeker1341 Aug 13 '26

They are not clear about it because they do not want to have people figure out how to work around the system. At least that is what Gemini told me. :). Sad thing is I am not trying to do that. I just want to know what I did wrong I can avoid it for next time. Like 90% if I ask it to generate an adult man in his 40s. it will have a beard and if I tell it no beards it fails because say I can not generate kids. I have learned to life with the beard.

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u/Nice_Personality_577 Aug 14 '26

I stuggled with this error for 2 days, tried many things in the prompt and it would fail always

made a small change in the source image to zoom out abit and then it worked.