# Critical Bug: Video Generation Model Bypasses Pre-Flight Directives, Ignores Reference Images, and Hallucinates Unauthorized Objects

**URL:** <https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/critical-bug-video-generation-model-bypasses-pre-flight-directives-ignores-reference-images-and-hallucinates-unauthorized-objects/176367>\
**Category:** Gemini API\
**Tags:** bug, feedback, ai-studio, gemini-api, gemini\
**Created:** [July 28, 2026, 4:22am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/critical-bug-video-generation-model-bypasses-pre-flight-directives-ignores-reference-images-and-hallucinates-unauthorized-objects/176367 "2026-07-28T04:22:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 4:22am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/critical-bug-video-generation-model-bypasses-pre-flight-directives-ignores-reference-images-and-hallucinates-unauthorized-objects/176367/1 "2026-07-28T04:22:28Z")

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Hello Support Team and Community,

We are facing a critical, persistent system-level failure in the video generation engine regarding prompt adherence, custom image constraints, and verification protocols.

Core Issues Encountered:

Total Bypass of System Directives & Pre-Flight Checks: System-level instructions, automated pre-flight verification routines, and saved configuration parameters are completely ignored by the processing engine.

Ignored Image Reference Constraints: When providing exact reference frames/images, the video model fails to preserve the source pixels accurately, instead overriding them with a rigid default template.

Unwanted Object Hallucination: Despite strict negative constraints and clear textual boundaries restricting visual elements exclusively to a defined 5-point aesthetic framework (Bindi, Kajal, Pink Lipstick, Sindoor, and Mangalsutra), the engine repeatedly injects unauthorized accessories (such as nose rings) into the output frames.

Resource Exhaustion: Because the model continuously overrides instructions and generates non-compliant assets, generations repeatedly result in errors, burning through daily rate limits without yielding usable production output.

Expected Behavior: The video generation pipeline must strictly and immutably respect user-provided reference images, active prompt parameters, and verification flags without defaulting to unauthorized templates or hallucinating unrequested attributes.

Please escalate this prompt-adherence and template-override bug to the engineering team for a backend fix.