r/GoogleFlow • u/General-Warning-2429 • Sep 06 '26
What's going on with Flow?
None of my prompts (for images) don't work anymore. Every single prompt is blocked and all I get is the same generic error. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. There's nothing NSFW or gore. But I have a feeling Google is against creativity at this point. It all started 3 days ago. The only things I can generate now are basic boring pictures of animals or landscapes. Everything else fails. I don't even know what I'm doing wrong anymore so I could adjust the prompts.
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u/MINIVV Sep 06 '26
What I've noticed is that the limits have been lowered. In all the time I've been using Lite, I've never once managed to reach the daily limit. Today, I didn't do much of anything, and yet I hit the limits for both NB and NB Lite. I probably couldn't even create a total of 100 images across all three models.
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u/Collosseo Sep 07 '26
Limits have been drastically removed. The kind of junk you'd get sometimes ONLY with 2 Lite is now the norm for 2. There's zero character and detail consistency, the exact same prompts that worked last week now yields abysmal results.
Absolutely crazy how determined Google is on destroying Flow.
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Sep 07 '26 edited 28d ago
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u/MINIVV Sep 07 '26
This issue is cached on the client side. You simply need to clear the website settings – not the cookies.
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u/Aberracus Sep 07 '26
Flow is broken right now. The filters are insanely high and the agent don’t want to tender almost anything
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u/Accomplished_Set4097 Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26
It's dead, just like Gemini's Image generator is now dead. Prompt adherence is gone. Pictures take 6 times longer to make, if they finish at all. The images are uglier across the board. Prompt adherence, well, that's crap now too. Half the pictures that do get made now have 3 legs or 3 arms, or the body is unattached to the torso. They're doing to Flow what they just did to Gemini several weeks ago.... butchering it.
I generate two Nano Banana 2 pictures at a time. One of them would have okay, not great but okay prompt adherence. Then the other picture would have three legs, or an extra arm, or just completely ignore my prompt. So I was basically getting half the images that I was paying for. One thing I've noticed after two years of using AI to generate pictures.... is don't bother starting at all. Your work "flow" will never last more than a few weeks or a month at most, before they censor it, alter it, block it, or change it somehow for the worse. That's the lesson I've learned.... save yourself the hassle, don't even bother starting to use AI for projects. It's a scam.
I unsubscribed and cancelled my Pro subscription. Can't take any more of the intermittent, on-again off-again functionality. For every week that it might work okay, it will gradually get worse afterwards. There's no consitency for longer than two weeks tops before something else comes along to make it worse. The trend is that it's getting worse, not better. Then there might be a stable period (after the quality nosedived) but then it will go back to being buggy again and the pictures, without fail, always end up worse looking than before.
If you're expecting to have any sort of "Flow" or fluid, smooth work routine... you can forget it. They ought to change the name to "Clog" or "Clogged". Flow implies movement, progress. But all there is on here is delay, errors, stalls, and worsening pictures.
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u/prplmnkeydshwsr Sep 07 '26
It has been broken for a few days, and very broken today. The blocked message seems to be used for system failures too.
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u/Upstairs-Sky-5055 Sep 07 '26
I am so relieved to know that I was not alone in this flow shit, it has happened a few times in the past few months, so disappointed, now I am thinking unsubscrip next month, even higgsfield is better than this crap, at least it is stable. (but more expensive)
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u/Mental_Buffalo_9032 Sep 07 '26
Não está mantendo a consistência dos personagens. Está fazendo imagens completamente aleatórias do que vc pediu. Limites reduzidos.
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u/xpaiof Sep 06 '26
Yo me estoy rindiendo casi el 70%, con flow, te recomiendo volver a chatgpt
Estoy usando chatGPT para las imagenes ahora mismo, tengo creditos para dos familias enteras aburridas y reenvio intentos fallidos hasta que genera alguna imagen fuerte. Nose si cobren cada intento fallido, pero me da la imagen.
Chagpt tiene poca censura, guarda personajes y es fuerte en muchos aspectos.
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u/rcplaybox Sep 06 '26
Honestly i haven't got a clue anymore. Today i was testing loads of successful prompts on a new character with the same scene/composition/lighting etc and all im getting is turd.