Content policy clarification — commercial photo-to-illustration service for children's portraits

Gemini API
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Hello,

I’m building a commercial service (French e-commerce, personal project)
that transforms children’s photos into stylized superhero-themed
illustrations (comic book / pop art / cartoon styles), delivered as
printed framed artwork. Parents upload a photo of their own child
(with their explicit consent) and receive a stylized, non-photorealistic
illustration as a physical product.

I’ve run a small test batch (24 calls, gemini-3-pro-image model,
paid tier) using photos of my own children, with prompts requesting
comic book / pop art / illustrated superhero transformations, and
all 24 succeeded without any safety block.

Before building a production service around this, I’d like to confirm:

  1. Is this use case (transforming a real child’s photo into a
    stylized, non-sexual, non-realistic illustration, for a
    commercial print product, with parental consent) considered
    an acceptable use under the Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy?

  2. Are there specific safety thresholds or restrictions I should be
    aware of at scale (e.g., photorealistic outputs vs. stylized/
    illustrated outputs) that aren’t apparent from small-scale testing?

  3. Is there a way to get a documented confirmation of this use case’s
    compliance before scaling to production?

Thank you for any guidance.

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Hello Julie!
Thank you for reaching out to verify compliance before scaling your service. Google does not issue custom compliance certificates or documented approvals for individual use cases; compliance is self-managed and governed entirely under our public Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy.

Your proposed use case of transforming real children’s photos into stylized, non-photorealistic, and non-sexual illustrations generally complies with our Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy, provided you ensure that users hold the intellectual property rights to the uploaded photos. We further ensure child safety compliance by applying additional safety filters where necessary.