Gemini users report weaker instructions, errors, and reliability issues

Recent Gemini usage shows a pattern of complaints about weaker instruction following and less stable results. In image generation, a request to move a boyfriend’s hand from a girlfriend’s chest area to her waist did not fix the pose and instead produced an extra awkward hand coming from the waistband area. Other image fixes also failed when repeated correction requests returned almost the same picture with only small changes to the angle or background.

In writing tasks, the tone could start consistently and then suddenly become overly formal halfway through, making it feel as if Gemini was losing context. In AI Studio, Omni Flash returned repeated internal errors after clips were added, leaving uncertainty about whether the feature was blocked in the UK or simply failing. Google Assistant-style tasks also became harder, with reminders asking for Google Workspace connection, failed setup steps, and Google Tasks instructions that no longer matched the current app layout.

On Vertex AI, Gemini models were reported to hit throttling after only a few requests, while large 100k-token sessions slowed down during tool calls in a way that made caching seem broken.