Safety Settings Error

Google AI Studio
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Since 2.5 pro exp has been launched the safety filters have apparently lost their functioning although that wasn’t as noticeable, in the past few days a strange behavior is occurring where the external non toggleable filter overrides the safety settings of the user leading to an absurd amount of blocking effectively eliminating user control over the filters. For me it makes no sense to have safety settings if we cannot test them or use them, the default option for gemini pro 2.5 seems to be off, but it’s jeopardized by the external filter. There was a work in progress notification on the blockage notification of the external filter that now has been removed. That gives a feeling of lack of transparency.

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Hi @Pierrot_Sala . Thank you for reaching out. Apologies for late response
To help me understand better and get this to the right team:

  1. Could you provide specific prompts that are being unexpectedly blocked?
  2. Please describe the steps you take when this happens so I can try to reproduce it.
  3. Are you accessing Gemini on a desktop browser or a mobile app ?
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Hey there, what i have observed is that the filtering system usually obsesses with words. It’s random when it’s gonna block most of the times however talking about real world issues at times can get nuanced as more sensitive topics seem to trigger a content block other warning. Not always but it happens. Words like girl for example sometimes can generate a random block and the response gets stopped. To be clear the filter is inconsistent however off means off not block some at the filter’s seemingly arbitrary judgment. I mostly use mobile for AI Studio and the Gemini Web App. In fact AI studio should behave like the Gemini Web App, it would be for the best. I haven’t been tracking since i thought i wouldn’t get a response however you can try to mix words that the filtering could fixate on in increasingly more “sensitive contexts”. It negates to talk about trauma at times because of the blockage, i had cases where it blocked real world problems that involve sensitive questions blocked and creative writing and experimenting pass. Both should be allowed, however it’s inconsistent. Sometimes it won’t let go of a response untill you reword it, even if it’s the most SFW content it can misinterpret and block.