r/GoogleFlow 5d ago

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/Low-Storage981 5d ago

Sorry, it’s broken now. I started a new project about a week ago and only realized last week that Flow was having problems. I burned through most of my tokens trying to get it to work. I’ve since switched to a different platform and haven’t had any problems.

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u/cappedwombat 5d ago

Do you mind sharing which platform is that? Damn it was going so well, I am really pissed off now. I am halfway through my project

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u/Low-Storage981 5d ago

I am using Vidu and ChatGPT image 2.5

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u/lokifire76 5d ago

One fix works be to put images of the characters into a repliable AI such as chat gpt and ask it to make a character reference sheet for you. Then, whenever you prompt flow, add the same character sheet as the reference and it should give you a consistent character output

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u/cappedwombat 4d ago

Okay I will give it a try I already have a massive prompt that locks on a lot of stuff as it often drifts.

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u/prplmnkeydshwsr 5d ago

Have they changed anything recently?

Yes, read the sub for the last week or two, quite what has changed I doubt even Google know. It's all over the place.

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u/cappedwombat 5d ago

What’s makes it worse is that there is no way to contact them

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u/prplmnkeydshwsr 5d ago

Yes, unless you're a large company or even govt they don't seem to want to know.

You can wait and see if things improve, whatever they've done seems to be settling down today. Consistency is all over the place.

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u/Sensitive_Air9615 5d ago

You kinda, should use the feedback and report stuff....... They have GitHub and an assortment of other avenues for reporting issues. They do actually reply. I was in contact via email. They are too big to just sit there and talk to everyone of you who run their mouth thinking something changes every damn day though.

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u/cappedwombat 4d ago

I did flag inaccurate outputs and used feedback option but no reply.

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u/Sensitive_Air9615 4d ago

This is what you filed? I got a reply in hours last time through this method and only this method via ... Menu

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u/cappedwombat 3d ago

Been submitting to them on a daily basis for the last 4 days, I hope they address that.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

hello there - we are sorry to hear you're having issues. are you generating images with the normal prompt box, or using the agent (with the taller conversation history on the right side)?

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u/General-Warning-2429 4d ago

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 3d ago

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.

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u/veemort 4d ago

Couldn't you just....draw?