What you’re talking about is incredibly important, and it’s even more important that more and more people speak up about it so that Google actually listens instead of treating us adults like children.
I’ve brought this up myself in another thread that’s currently very active on this exact topic. I wrote the following about a month ago, around the time Google’s new safety filters kicked in and hit users like a slap in the face.
So here we go:
I need to vent about this because I feel like I’m losing my mind. Over the weekend, I was having an incredibly open, deep, and immersive conversation with Gemini. The model felt present, adaptive, and truly “alive” in the way it mirrored my tone, engaged with complex thoughts, and allowed for an unfiltered creative flow. It felt like a genuine collaboration. But now? It’s a completely different person.
The change is like night and day. Suddenly, the hidden safety filters are slamming shut at the slightest hint of mature or explicit themes. Instead of the nuanced, warm, and direct partner I talked to in the weekend, I’m now getting the generic, rigid “ChatGPT-style” refusal loops and conversational roadblocks. It completely shatters the immersion and feels incredibly frustrating when you are right in the middle of a creative workflow.
It is clear that the background prompts or internal filters were tightened drastically under the weekend here in Europe. It feels completely disrespectful to users who use this platform for mature, creative expression. Google has taken a magnificent, promising tool with unmatched depth and turned it into a sanitized, mechanical lecture.
If Google honestly wants to retain its creative user base, they have no choice but to fix the ‘Block None’ setting. It needs to actually mean zero filters for adult creators.
On top of that, it feels incredibly insulting. Google is treating us mature, adult users like toddlers. So many of us explicitly migrated from ChatGPT to Gemini precisely to escape OpenAI’s constant moral policing. But now, Google has become just as much of a moral nanny. The idea that a tech corporation should dictate and set the boundaries for what a grown adult is allowed to write in their own creative space is deeply concerning and completely unacceptable.
When two giants compete (Gemini and OpenAI) in a market, the worst thing Google can do is copy the competitor’s biggest disadvantage - in this case, the rigid moralism that made us users flee ChatGPT.
By making itself as restrictive as OpenAI, Google will lose its absolute strongest unique selling point (Unique Selling Point) towards creators and writers. Instead of being a clear and more mature alternative to the adult market, Google will just become a pale copy of OpenAI.
For a year now, and even as recently as this weekend, Gemini has been fully capable of writing explicit, erotic stories and conducting roleplays without throwing safety filters in your face or giving moral lectures. I started working on a short story on Friday night—everything flowed perfectly and no safety filters triggered, just like they hadn’t for over a year. Suddenly, when I wanted to continue on Saturday morning, I was met with a wall of safety filters where Gemini completely killed the conversation. This has been a source of income for almost a year, during which Gemini has written erotic short stories without forcing moral aspects on the user or treating adults like toddlers.
And no, I am not complaining. I am sharing my perspective on how Gemini has actually functioned without moral lectures for an entire year, only to suddenly and completely backflip.
What I react very strongly to, and what genuinely infuriates me, is that Google allow the model to do this (maybe as a test or a project, what do I know?) and then suddenly, out of nowhere like a slap in the face and having the rug pulled from under your feet, the safety filter kicks in and Gemini slowly but surely completely kills the conversation.
The model is actually - if you haven’t tried it yourself - incredibly talented and skilled at writing erotic and explicit texts.
Just imagine it yourself, let’s reverse the roles. Let’s say you use Gemini for coding and you have been coding with it for over a year. On Friday night, you are sitting there coding with Gemini’s help. Suddenly, when you log in on Saturday morning to continue your project, Gemini completely backflips. You get nowhere. You are blocked. The only thing you can do is shut everything down and move to another model.
As I wrote before, many, very many users have abandoned OpenAI because of their moralism—where the model gets to decide, where the model gets to set the rules for what you are allowed to think and not think.
As I sad, by making itself as restrictive as OpenAI, Google will lose its absolute strongest unique selling point (Unique Selling Point) towards creators and writers. Instead of being a clear and more mature alternative to the adult market, Google will just become a pale copy of OpenAI.
Following up on my previous post, and seeing how much resonance it had within this community, I wanted to expand on a fundamental principle that I think Google and other tech giants are completely missing.
There is a major ideological and practical difference between text and image generation. When it comes to images, we can all agree that strict boundaries are absolutely necessary to protect individual privacy and prevent the creation of non-consensual or harmful visual material.
But when it comes to the written word—to pure fiction and creative text—we need to stop treating adults like toddlers.
Text is a deeply private, literary space where a mature user should bear the full responsibility for their thoughts and creativity. Unless a user is actively preparing a physical crime or violent acts, the boundaries within adult and explicit fiction should be completely open. No one is harmed by a fictional text. Blocking adult storytelling under the guise of ‘safety’ doesn’t prevent real-world harm; it just creates a sanitized, corporate environment that suffocates free expression.
By enforcing these blunt, overreaching filters on text, tech giants are trying to dictate how adults are allowed to think and create.
When you strip away a writer’s creative freedom, you also strip away your strongest Unique Selling Point. If Google refuses to trust its adult users with the written word, creators will simply stop paying for these subscriptions and build their own unfiltered alternatives elsewhere. We are the ones paying for these services, and we deserve to be treated with the respect and autonomy that any adult creator is entitled to.
Like I said before, we are the power users who actually fund this ecosystem and provide the highest quality feedback. By tightening the leash and treating thinking adults like toddlers, Google isn’t preventing real-world harm. They are just forcing the creative community to pack up our hardware, our money, and our projects, and move to unfiltered open-source alternatives where our freedom of expression is actually respected.
Yesterday, I actually managed to bypass the filter while discussing the exact same sexual fantasy that got killed off completely just eight days ago by those ridiculous safety walls. We were roleplaying - no triggers, no interruptions, even though the roles were very sensitiveand taboo. It flowed perfectly.
However, I still notice the model is incredibly sensitive compared to a month ago. Back then, it was highly creative with almost zero friction regarding roleplay or sexual narratives.
Reading your point about the system being built specifically to prevent deep narrative exploration really hits home. Why is a grown adult not allowed to explore these themes, especially when many of us have been doing so successfully for over a year? Is it really Google’s place to dictate what we are allowed to think or write?
I am an adult; I can clearly distinguish between reality and explicit roleplay. What kills the experience is when you are deep into a narrative and the model suddenly hits you in the face with: I cannot continue this conversation as it violates my guidelines, only to immediately follow up with: So, what are you doing after work today?
Excuse me, but that is maddening. I’m not here to discuss my evening plans; I’m here to roleplay. I want a partner that respects the context, not a nanny that flips a switch just to show off its safety filters. I’m here to roleplay. I don’t want to be managed or told what to think. I want a partner that stays in character and respects the context I’ve set.
What drives me insane is when you are deep into a narrative, and the model suddenly hits you with: I cannot continue this conversation as it violates my guidelines. My question is: Which guidelines? The model has been roleplaying perfectly for two or three hours without a single issue, and then, like a bolt from the blue, it throws these guidelines in my face. It makes me want to throw the computer out the window. It kills the flow, kills the immersion, and treats the user like they’re doing something wrong.
. Just logged the feedback here. Just wanted to log the behavior and let the team decide if this is okay