+1

I understand the results are non deterministic but I get absolute garbage too.

Uploaded pics of my (32 years old) wife and we wanted to ask it to give her a fringe/bangs to see how would she look like it either refused "because of safety" and when it complied results were horrible, it was a different person.

After many days and tries we got it to make one but there was no way to tweak the fringe, the model kept returning the same pic every time (with plenty of "content blocked" in between).

Seedream 4.0 is not always better than Gemini Flash 2.5 (nano-banana), but when it is better, there is a gulf in performance (and when it's not, it's very close.)

It's also cheaper than Gemini, and has way fewer spurious content warnings, so overall I'm done with Gemini

Are you in gemini.google.com interface? If so, try Google AI Studio instead, there you can disable safety filters.