• Google Gemini used to accept input letting you specify the shape, or aspect ratio, of images it generates. • Last month, this stopped working, and Gemini will only create new pictures that are square. • Google says that it’s working on a fix, and there are some workaround you can use until then.

If you’ve used modern AI chatbots enough, this probably is going to sound very familiar: You construct a prompt containing one or more very specific restrictions, and then watch as the result you get just utterly ignores those limitations.

I recently had just such an experience, trying to use Gemini to cheat at Blue Prince solve some word puzzles, and even when directing that I wanted only 6-letter answers, still got a bunch of 7- and 8-letter responses. Normally, when you point this out to

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