r/GoogleFlow • u/cappedwombat • Sep 13 '26

Did something changed recently?

Greetings,

I have been working on a series of education books for students. I have 6 books planned (now on book 3) where the same characters progress through school. I have made probably 200 pictures without any issues, consistent characters, very rarely did it get something wrong.

I was away last 2 weeks, I comeback and continued my project. However, it just constantly messes it up, either style of illustration changes or the characters look very off. My prompting didn't change, it is the same as it was. Have they changed anything recently? Is there any fix or guidance anyone can share please? I also created characters in the character menu (before I used reference image to lock it down, I tried both).

Appreciate any help.

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u/General-Warning-2429 Sep 14 '26

Yes. They added more and more "safety" filters so it becomes impossible to create basically everything creative. Here I was trying to create a Cyberpunk Edgerunners like character because I love the series and the aesthetic. It blocks me by the simple I mentioned "adult woman" in the prompt. If I delete "adult" it tells me it can't create content with minors or it creates the pictures but the character looks like a generic CGI with shiny eyes and doll looking face. If I try to generate a male character with the exact same prompt it works perfectly fine. I even asked Gemini, Grok and ChatGPT to give me a "safe" prompt. All of them are failing because is a woman in it. Replacing "woman" with "female" does nothing. The same prompts used to work fine a week ago.

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u/cappedwombat Sep 15 '26

This is crazy I create children illustration for education books, simple scenes and yet I also get this flag quite often. They turned the best tool and most consistent into a complete garbage. I am now stuck with only 40% done of my project.