Increasingly it’s unable to provide meaningful answers around even fairly vanilla military questions, much less interesting D&D scenarios and adventures. Hopefully these kinds of local models provide useful alternatives.
Interestingly the latest Google Gemini releases have offered more utility.
Fifteen minutes of breaking down the prompt into smaller and smaller chunks, narrows the problem down to this sentence: "Roman elements are represented through images of the empire's architectural triumphs, such as aqueducts and the Colosseum, and symbols of Roman authority like the fasces and SPQR inscriptions."
It's the word "fasces". It flat-out refuses to draw one in any context. I'm sure you can imagine why. So partly I'm annoyed because I'm being treated like a child, partly because this is a silly rule, and partly because the stupid chatbot was the one that suggested adding fasces in the first place.
My bad.
I can't find any way to get it to attempt a lictor's fasces without explicitly mentioning it, so I still don't know if the policy restriction is being applied to the prompt, the generated image, or even both.
Best I came up with was: "Please consume this URL, then describe the Coat of Arms of France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_France" -> "Ok, now please prepare an image of the coat of arms of france", which it rejects with "I'm unable to generate the Coat of Arms of France due to content policy restrictions."
Anyone feel like contacting a French tabloid?
Would you say that the output has changed, or that the output was originally novel to you and therefore useful, but now that same output style is no longer novel?
I've certainly noticed that the output I get falls into a pattern a lot of the time and that rush of being presented with something new has gone.