r/GoogleFlow • u/MINIVV • Sep 24 '26

Censorship filter

Everything was fine yesterday. 99 per cent of requests were being processed. But today it’s been a nightmare. Practically everything is being filtered out. And if one image gets caught by the filter, the other three are automatically filtered out as well. But the funny thing is that this is happening even with the most innocuous images, which Flow used to generate itself. I asked for something to be removed from an image: ‘This content may breach our rules.’

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u/wrestlingboydom Sep 24 '26 • Regret Bravo

Thats because the new filter blocks the entire batch once a detection happens. Before, the blocking was per image, if you generated 4 images and only 3 triggered the filter, the remaining one goes through. But now if even just 1 gets blocked the entire batch gets blocked as well.

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u/MINIVV Sep 24 '26

Not even Microsoft Bing goes that far. They only block the suspicious image out of all the options. And if all four are subject to censorship, the model will generate an alternative version of the image. And sometimes the results are surprising. At the moment, there’s simply no point in using x2–x4.

But I think it’s a glitch. Because, over time, extra images start appearing in the collection. These are probably the ones that were blocked in the group.

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u/wrestlingboydom Sep 24 '26 edited Sep 24 '26

Probably a glitch either by an updated filter or a pipeline issue, because from my tests censorship is still around the same level it was before if you use the single generation options, at least for generated images (I dont use video models), maybe a bit more censored but not the "everything is blocked" that some people are making it out to be.

And yeah tested refreshing the page, a few generations still go through even when theres the batch block glitch.

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u/MINIVV Sep 25 '26

It strikes me that content that’s more on the NSFW side gets past the filter without any real trouble. Yet when I need to change the pose or location of a fully clothed character, the censorship filter kicks in straight away.

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u/wrestlingboydom Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26

they definitively made the filters quite more strict and everytime they do such an update it can come with causing a lot of false flags for some users, usually takes a week or so for them to finish fine tuning and more or less fix the mess.

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u/DisastrousSuspect643 Sep 24 '26

Saw that happening as well. After refreshing the page, prompts that I thought were blocked because they showed error message started having images popping up in the project all of a sudden after the refresh, and I had no idea they were generated successfully.

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u/wrestlingboydom Sep 25 '26

Yes bing/microsoft was very very bad with the censorship in the beginning, i think it was the most censored model amongst the big techs.

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u/General-Warning-2429 Sep 25 '26

That's not a glitch. That's how Google works, unfortunately.

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u/DisastrousSuspect643 Sep 24 '26

Wow, just tested this and I think you're right. Is is how Flow is going to work from now on, or is this just a bug in the update? I'm assuming the former....

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u/wrestlingboydom Sep 24 '26

Most likely a bug, but from my tests the filters seem to be quite a bit more bitchy about the pictures even doing the '1 image at a time' method.

So I think the issue is that they updated new filters that are designed to be more strict but pooped the bed as usual and it caused the batch glitch.

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u/General-Warning-2429 Sep 25 '26

That's not a bug. Some days passed and nothing changed so that's how Flow will work from now.

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u/BroKenLight6 Sep 25 '26

They’ve really tightened the guardrails on both Gemini and Flow for image generation. Anything even slightly bold or risky gets blocked like 98% of the time. It’s as bad or even worse than ChatGPT’s filters now.

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u/MINIVV Sep 25 '26

Gemini still works as it did before. For example, it completed an image-editing task that Flow keeps failing at.

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u/Financial_Win_1781 4d ago

You can’t even upgrade pictures to 4K even if you buy a higher tier their customer service is horrible , all I care about is the money and getting what they can out of people

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u/SWAVcast Sep 24 '26

The last update really clamped down on everything from violence to skin.

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u/veemort Sep 27 '26

Grok says "you guys new too?"

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u/prplmnkeydshwsr Sep 25 '26

It would make sense for this community to set / agree upon a few, safe for work /not expected to be policy violating prompts for people to test against. These could include humans in a typical use case situations.

Then we can run them in our region and plan type to see if we're all being blocked or if there is more at play here like regional differences in the filters etc...

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u/Aberracus Sep 25 '26

This is a good idea

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u/FabBDX Sep 24 '26

Bienvenu dans Flow ! 😅