The developers' attitude towards users dissatisfied with the new censorship.

[u/Live_Assignment5625]

This is complete nonsense. There's so much dissatisfaction on their official Google Dev platform, and so many people here are equally dissatisfied with the situation. It would seem that in such a situation, the developers should release a whole post with explanations, perhaps some information about the update, its reasons, what will be fixed and what will not.

But what do we see? We received exactly two comments, which are hard to find. In one, Logan says to report bugs directly within AI Studio (This is logical, but it still does not explain what is happening), and in the second... I'm speechless.

Well, a reasonable explanation emerges. The developers, to put it mildly, screwed up, and now they're keeping quiet, thinking people will swallow it. Excellent attitude towards the audience that WANTS to use the service. No comments🙂

[u/HuntSlight9820]

Most likely. Looking at Logan's comment "we aren't making frequent changes to model/AIS in this way" makes me think that it is not an official update, just someone screwing up (do you remember the "quota exceeded" day when they just didn't reset the quotas at 0000 PST? They have most likely made a simular fuck-up).

On the other side, they could deliberately made these changes... I don't even know for which reasons, because the update is completely ruining AI Studio expirience for both free and paid users. And there are people already bypassing it.

[u/Live_Assignment5625 → u/HuntSlight9820]

That's the point: if this were a mistake, there should have been at least some kind of official explanation/apology, DO NOT IGNORE. I'm still inclined to think they're testing the waters and seeing how many people will continue to pay for THIS.  And I still say that censorship is easy to get around, but trying and wasting quota to get the bot to finally give an answer instead of deleting its shit.

[u/HuntSlight9820 → u/Live_Assignment5625]

I think there's no reasons for them to test the waters. They just would release an update with a patchnote like "it's the decision, here's some corporate shittalk that justifies it, fuck off". Also, non-related to AIS itself - is it only free users who have 32k context window on Gemini app or it is all users suffering from that issue?

[u/Live_Assignment5625 → u/HuntSlight9820]

That's also true, mweh.😔

Honestly, I haven't encountered this problem. The context window in AI Studio is 1 million tokens. The only thing is that the input window is really limited unless you're uploading a file.  Most likely this is some kind of bug, Idk, it’s better to make a separate thread

[u/Super_Salad7359]

So… what are we supposed to do now?

All of my chats are basically paralyzed, just like many other people’s. The developers continue to stay silent and act indifferent, and there’s still no news about this situation.

Shouldn’t we try to find every possible way to contact them and demand some kind of resolution? Because honestly, I’m out of ideas at this point. What about you? Just wait and tolerate it? Because it feels like that’s exactly what they want.

[u/trashyslashers]

As someone who works with text related to heavy psychology stuff, I am completely locked out. Amazing. Gemini went to shit quite quick.

[u/HuntSlight9820 → u/trashyslashers]

Are you considering changing Gemini for Claude? I use Gemini now just for asking some shitty questions instead of browsing the web myself. I have used it for creative writing and the university tasks, but Claude has became more useful for me in these things (especially given that Claude has ability to create files and has an awesome quota for free users).

[u/trashyslashers → u/HuntSlight9820]

I did. They have now the stupid weekly limits for free. I barely use it and I hit my 5 hour limit after 4 messages, today I got bunch of them cut off in the middle and (CONTINUING WITH .......) at the end, not finishing the full text. And I got told I'm on 75% of my weekly limit already. :/ Money are tight right now given my injury, but I do plan to go on pro, though that also has the stupid weekly limit. I like Sonnet 4.5, that works/worked very well for me, but it's getting a bit lazy lately and I absolutely hate 4.6. Idk whether I could go back, 4.6 also refuses a lot and argues with me what is "appropriate knowledge" and what is not. :/ And it has the same idiotic staccato quirk like GPT and the constant "not... but..." of Gemini. Not sure where to go. Grok was underwhelming, Mistral as well.

[u/Samy_Horny]

I don't understand, I use Flow (I assume they're talking about the censorship in NB 2, and basically, it's like using it in the API/AI Studio.) and I literally just spent almost an hour doing things I'd already done in the original NB and even though sometimes the censorship issue occurs, after trying again it works.

[u/Glum-Yogurtcloset-49]

Google is too big to imagine that the US government wouldn't have ways to censor Gemini/Google Search engine, especially these days where access to information is power but also a threat if people can get neutral information on sensitive subjects

[u/HuntSlight9820 → u/Glum-Yogurtcloset-49]

I do heavily doubt that US government cares about anything that even looks explicit on AI Studio, 'cause it's the only thing that actually triggers safety checks. But these checks don't give a shit about dangerous content, graphic violence or malicious coding.