Google image gen's copyright guardrail blocks clean prompts, then passes on retry

phbyerly · reddit · 2026-09-29

A Reddit user reports occasionally getting "I can't generate the image you requested right now due to interests of third-party content providers" from Google's image generation tool.

Google says the message means the prompt resembles copyrighted characters, brands, or protected IP — but the user's prompts contain none of that, and resubmitting the identical prompt succeeds. The copyright guardrail appears to be over-blocking with inconsistent behavior.

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