As long as Google continues to hamstring themselves with censorship for no reason, I can't use their products. The other day I asked gemini 2.5 pro "which british ceo said that his company's products were bad" and the response was
> I'm just a language model, so I can't help you with that.
https://g.co/gemini/share/cb3afc3e7f78
Chatgpt 4o correctly identified the guy as Ratner and provided the relevant quotes.
It seems more likely just a weird bug considering that I can't understand at all why this topic would be considered controversial or censure worthy.
(casually googling this same line just now does reveal an AI suggestion with the correct answer)
I could even see Gemini 2.5 googling the right things and "thinking" about Gerald Ratner before it abruptly censored itself at the last moment.
I wouldn't bother with the official Gemini app. I don't know why Google even bothers with it at this point. I only interact with 2.5 through AI studio and it's great through that interface.
The model itself is much more lax about such stuff than ChatGPT and especially Claude. The filters are applied on top of that, but products using it via the API don't suffer this problem.