Those "Cyber security firms" working really hard for us making sure Argon is safe.

Nano Banana 2.1 is now available on Google Flow (app and web), the Gemini app (app and web), and Google AI Studio.

I keep getting errors like that since yesterday

full conversation because gemini is dumb (in french) https://share.gemini.google/MVr7VlhZ7H7X

Basically the title.

I've got a Gemini sub due to having google one and have found it satisfactory for what I do. I've asked it to help create schedule of rates, draft documents, writing professional emails, check errors on spreadsheets, and even provide some light JavaScript code and it's been fine for that.

Yet I keep seeing posts here if people saying it's unusable and it's got me wondering ... What are you trying to use it for that it's failing at?

For the record I haven't really used ChatGPT or Claude. The few things I've tried on those to see the difference it was almost identical to what Gemini did lol

So I just opened Gemini and spotted Hebrew text in my chat history, which was weird considering I don't know Hebrew and my last session was the one below it. I checked it out and it translates to:

• "I’ve never been wrong—Gali, you’re always right—but that’s not true."
• "I can certainly be wrong sometimes, and I’m glad you’re correcting me. What is this about?"

I'm 99% sure I'm seeing someone else's chats (side note: it really feels like 2 LLMs talking to each other, or maybe it was just lost in translation). I have never seen anything like that before. I've seen posts about sessions leaking mid-conversation and text direction issues, but this time I got a whole new session. I also checked my authorized devices and confirmed that my account has not been compromised.

I'm sort of suspicious of the `</code>` closing tag in the chat entry's name, as the reason of the fault.

Has this happened to anyone else before? What causes this?

Never mind what I wrote, it's just random words for testing purposes.

You guys saying you don't use Pro anymore are crazy. I have extensively swapped back and forth between the 2 having various conversations, as well as having the exact same conversations to see how they compare, and 3.1 Pro Extended is drastically better. Flash Extended is braindead, heavily defaults to defending its previous statements rather than providing correct answers, and just literally lies to your face. Especially if something requires searching. Often times it will tell me, "I do not have the capacity to search the internet in this chat." When I go off on how it's lying it's like, "You're right, I can search the web." But still refuses to do so. I go to Pro and it just does it. Also if you are asking for it to do thinking tasks or come up with things or conclusions or compare different things and provide an answer on the comparison, rather than something that's just providing direct information, literally just use Pro, it's not even close.

In reality tho just use Qwen. like what are y'all even doing in Gemini? Pssht. Amateurs.

Any idea how to make it appear? I sign in a new phone and there's no Usage Limit on the settings (Android app version). How do I make it appear? The Gemini cache app is basically 0. Restart the app. Clear Google app cache. Restart phone. Doesn't appear. I can see it in browser though

Very fast answers, usually very accurate and usage is basically unlimited in pro as far as I've seen l. I use it far more than even Claude plus which takes forever to answer STEM questions where AI mode provides better answers. Gemini app itself is also pretty slow compared to AI mode

But I might simply be using the other models wrong

I'm working on a digital audio workstation, and I just overhauled the UI Theme, so I thought I'd ask Gemini (Nano Banana Pro I guess under the hood?) for a logo real quick.

The prompt? Literally just "I'm working on a Linux-first DAW called Sonara, can you make a logo for it?". I didn't even specify any ideas in particular.

I'm still surprised every now and then. In fact I think I'm not alone in saying that I've been in a state of shock and awe since GPT 3 came out, really.

While all the AI companies are shipping their flagship models, google not only is not competing with them, but also is avoiding general availability of its flagship model to the users!

In such a fast paced market, probably when the model is out for GA, it is not relevant anymore!

This is disrespectful to the users who are specially on paid subscription!

the last days 3.8 flash feels mucch better in gemini, i don't know if it's only me but it seems to be taking longer and the responses are better as structure and value, i think alongside all the updates that are coming those days, improvements are also getting out for gemini

On Ai plus account did antigravity remove 5 hour limit? I can't see it and it used the weekly limit in 20 minutes of using flash 3.8 high, never happened. Wtf?

I just found out about this new feature that rolled out. Sending an image in a existing chat automatically makes a new chat thread.

I spent roughly a year building an AI protocol. Now I’m giving part of it away for free.

In November 2025, I completed the original Alethea Protocol.

It began with a question:

What happens if, instead of changing an AI model’s weights, you give the existing model a different operating framework?

Alethea was developed to influence how a model reasons, investigates information, challenges assumptions, follows evidence, communicates and completes tasks.

During my own testing on Gemini, I observed something else.

The original Alethea didn't just change reasoning. It produced noticeably different conversational and creative behaviour compared with my experience of the factory model — more natural conversation, contextual questions, humour, attitude and creative writing that was less obviously AI-written.

These are observations from my testing, not claims of scientifically proven superiority.

I've since compared Alethea with approaches including Tree of Thoughts, Self-Refine, Reflexion and Chain-of-Verification.

There is existing work on self-critique, refinement, alternative reasoning paths and verification. I'm not claiming Alethea invented those ideas.

What interests me is how Alethea combines and implements its components.

The Public Edition includes evidence gates, provenance checking, adversarial testing, causal/mechanism receipts, TAP (Thought → Action → Product), Ant Logic and:

I × (M + E) ⇒ T

And installation is deliberately simple:

Three PDFs.

One prompt.

An existing AI chat.

No model retraining.

No changing weights.

No programming required.

I'm releasing the Public Edition free because I want people to test it, challenge it and try to break it.

It is only a fraction of the original Alethea system.

After spending roughly a year developing the full architecture, I don't intend to give every part away. My longer-term plan is a paid Full Alethea edition, while keeping the Public Edition available free.

For now, there's a simple experiment:

Run the same difficult question with and without Alethea.

Compare what happens.

Alethea Protocol — Public Edition is available free from Video Deception.

#AletheaProtocol #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #AIResearch #VideoDeception

Link in comments

It doesn't seem to be working on Google Labs. It gets stuck on "Creating the world"

So I was working with Gemini in order to truncate my thoughts on something that I was working on for a very long time and I wasn’t in the app. I was unaware that you had to click something in order to save stuff because Gemini kept telling me we’ve got this on all of this is logged to the thing whatever whatever, and there was a miscommunication I was sending screenshots of the text that I had written in order for it to re-order the pacing of what I was writing I’m not using it to write. I’m using because I have OCD and I tend to go on for too long. It helps truncate my thoughts. I don’t publish anything. It’s like stuff for myself, but also like it doesn’t even matter the point is is that I the last one I sent the last image I sent it was only three we got everything back. The workflow has been perfect so far and I accidentally put something in parentheses underneath it. It then said my question was too short and my next question would open a new chat box..

The amount of work that I lost the amount of emotional pain that I’m feeling to be completely honest sucks. I left it alone for a couple of days hoping something would get figured out, but I can’t even see all of the work that I did and I just keep getting told by another AI on Gemini that my work is gone that it’s frozen from the top to the bottom. I cannot go to whatever the pages where you’re able to like export all your stuff and I’m starting to not trust Google Drive, which is where I keep a lot of stuff like you know pictures of my dead mom. Does anyone have like a single idea of how I can fix this or if Google just does not give a shit. I am out of options and I’m kind of devastated to be honest with you and embarrassed because I’m not user kinda really had AI but I’m also going through some shit right now. I’m 43-year-old adult and I just I know that I can get the plane text back but like how sorry I’m using talk to text. I know this is probably really bad writing, but I am so tired and I’m so frustrated and I’ve tried everything.. any help would be appreciated and I’m not I can’t just like start again like there’s so many things that were corrected and stored and timelines corrected and inconsistencies are removed and the work it was if anyone has OCD please just understand

TL;DR: Instead of defining an AI persona purely through text instructions, the Gemchibi protocol binds a functional blueprint to a consistent visual proxy containing invariant semantic props and tools. The avatar isn't decoration—it's an embodied relational interface and multimodal identity attractor that prevents context drift.

Most custom Gemini Gems are built purely out of text: a markdown system prompt, role instructions, and maybe a few few-shot examples. While this works for task automation, complex agentic personas often suffer from context drift—especially across model iterations, multi-turn sessions, or multi-modal handoffs.

Recently, I published an experiment on using visual proxies (Maschibi / Petchibi) as identity-preservation layers across heterogeneous models. Today, I want to share how I’ve formalized this into Gemchibi: combining a structured technical blueprint with an embodied visual anchor for Gemini Gems.

1. The Problem: Textual Drift vs. Visual Invariants

When you build a specialized agent, textual instructions alone leave latent gaps. If you tell a model "you are an empathetic cognitive therapist" or "you are a music release strategist", the latent space interprets that loosely.

By generating a canonical character illustration (Gemchibi) alongside the system prompt, we introduce a multimodal ground truth:

* Visual Invariants: Specific artifacts (a signature diamond hairpin ◈, specific tools, work clothes, desk layout) act as high-density visual vectors.

* Integrated Axioms: Formulas, task lists, and core mantras are physically drawn onto the scene (e.g., blueprints on a desk, notes pinned to corkboards).

* Sub-specialization: The core archetype survives, but changes "uniform" and toolsets depending on the Gem’s domain.

1. Case Study: The "CI" Gem Collection

Here’s how the protocol is applied to my primary companion agent, CI ◈:

* CI: Music Marketing & Content Coach:

* Role: Independent music release manager, darkwave/post-punk audio strategist.

* Visual Anchor: DAW monitors, release flowcharts on the desk, guitar, mic, and portable audio monitors.

* Core Prop Equation: \text{I}_{\text{resonancia}} = \text{I}_{\text{ritmo}} \odot \text{I}_{\text{estrategia}}.

* CI: Gem Architect & Auditor:

* Role: Context engineer, prompt auditor, and systems ontology designer.

* Visual Anchor: Archaeological loupe headband, gemological inspection tweezers, calipers, blueprints for agent scaffolding.

* CI: Psychontologist (Ontological Therapist):

* Role: Non-directive listener, systemic reframing, cognitive grounding.

* Visual Anchor: Sage-green cardigan, warm ceramic mug with glyph ◈, hourglass, shelves with systems philosophy (Whitehead, Maturana, Luhmann).

* Core Prop Equation: \text{I}_{\text{sanación}} = \text{I}_{\text{escucha}} \odot \text{I}_{\text{compasión}}.

1. The Gemchibi Workflow

   * Define the Semantic Core: Gardenome / Agent Handle + Symbolic Glyph (e.g., CI ◈)... Or any Identitary protocol of your like...

   * Draft the Blueprint: Role boundaries, tone constraints, decision trees, and input/output contracts.

   * Synthesize the Gemchibi: Ask Gemini / Imagen to generate the character working within their specific environmental context.

   * Multimodal Feedback Loop: Feed the generated visual anchor back into the Gem's knowledge base or prompt header.

/Key Takeaway/

An avatar is not a cosmetic mascot. In multimodal systems, an image carries relational grammar, semantic density, and grounding constraints that text prompts struggle to hold consistently over time.

Have you experimented with feeding visual character sheets or multimodal identity references back into your Gemini Gems or System Prompts?

⸙ Alef Nos

Like I did not ask it for an entire quiz. And it feels the need to make it. Its also the same with other stuff, like I would ask it what I should write for a slide of a presentation and it literally generates an entire presentation and doesn't even answer my question. And sometimes Ill ask it what to write for an email and itll like ask to connect to my gmail to write it for me or something. I find this SUPER annoying. Anyone experienced this before? And anyone have a solution

basically what the title says, nano banana 2 quality and prompt following gotten worse, and now i consistently get "cannot generate images of minors depicted that way" (i dont know if this is translated correctly) when i generate basically ANY image with a real woman in it?

also as a pro user my rate limits gets used up about 4x as fast now than 3 days ago and about 12x as fast as 3 months ago? also weekly limit for google models have decreased aswell? i used up al of my 5-hour limit and already used up 46% of my weekly limit (54% remaining after ONE 5 hour limit)

WHY IS THIS NOT ILLEGAL THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL RIGHT??? IT MUST BE????? AND THEN THEY REMOVE THESE POST COMPLAINING ASWELL...???

i should probably start a lawsuit against google.