TL;DRGoogle 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 an AI system, it revises its output accordingly, eventually giving you want you wanted in the first place. But what’s currently going on with Gemini and image generation is proving to be nothing short of maddening.