What broke identity or look during generation, and the fix. One line per incident. Newest first.
| Date | Character / frame | Model | What drifted | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-04 | L02 villa night (Nano Banana 2) | Nano Banana 2 t2i | The neon sign rendered legible text ("The rules your love by") despite "unreadable" in the prompt | Accepted for the plate; any sign text in shots is replaced in post or the sign is cropped |
| 2026-09-04 | Bake-off refusals | GPT Image 2, Grok Imagine 2, MAI-Image 2.5 Pro, Muse, gpt-image-1.5 edit | Every bikini brief (Jules promo, Jules official promo, Harper candid) returned 422 on GPT Image 2; Grok returned 422 on four briefs including non-swimwear ones; MAI and Muse refused swimwear | Contestant work runs on Seedream 5 Pro, Nano Banana 2 or Pro, FLUX 2 Pro, Qwen-Image 3. GPT Image 2 stays in play for crew and locations only |
| 2026-09-04 | Dev action2, action3 | Seedream 5 lite edit | Background extras rendered as a teenage boy with a lav mic and a student tour group (final QC) | Pulled from the set; extras to be described as named adult contestants; regenerate with the bake-off winner |
| 2026-09-04 | Rafe (4 views), Tommy (4 views) | Seedream 5 lite | Rafe's shirt opens to mid-chest against "top button only"; Tommy's hair renders copper, not strawberry blond | Held for the bake-off winner; wording to try: "buttoned to the sternum, collar closed", "soft rose-gold strawberry blond" |
| 2026-09-04 | Sam lookB | Seedream 5 lite edit | A spare pair of headphones on the desk | Accepted as clutter |
| 2026-09-04 | Kaya, v4 | Seedream 5 lite t2i + edit | Fourth attempt reads as an adult in her twenties in the front, three-quarter, villa, and tray action frames (checked by Claude). Studio fronts still come in from a high angle even with "camera exactly at her eye level" | Accepted. High-angle studio fronts for short characters are a Seedream lite habit; the realism bake-off tests other models |
| 2026-09-04 | Kaya, v3 candidates | Seedream 5 lite t2i | Still read as a teenager, all four from a high angle, scar still red | Aged to 25 with crow's feet and under-eye shadows, 5'5", headphones moved to shot props, "camera exactly at her eye level"; regenerated |
| 2026-09-04 | Dev, whole v2 sheet | Seedream 5 lite edit | Rendered East Asian in every view (QC reviewer A) | Ancestry now "Punjabi family, South Asian features, prominent nose, not East Asian"; regenerated and checked by Claude |
| 2026-09-04 | Marcus and Priya expressions | Seedream 5 lite edit | 3x3 grids (nine faces) instead of six | Prompt now "exactly six, two rows of three, not nine"; regenerated |
| 2026-09-04 | Priya action1 (second try) | Seedream 5 lite edit | A third person with a lanyard leaned into the two-shot | "exactly two people in the frame and nobody else"; regenerated |
| 2026-09-04 | Rafe, Tilly | Seedream 5 lite t2i | Rafe's shirt open to mid-chest; Tilly's mini dress rendered as a gown | Wardrobe wording tightened; props-free refront then light sheets |
| 2026-09-04 | Kaya, whole v2 sheet | Seedream 5 lite edit | Rendered as a child or pre-teen in all 11 views while carrying drink trays (QC reviewer B). "Small build, round face, no makeup, plain" pushed the model young | Identity now states adult, 23 and looks it, recent graduate, adult proportions, under-eye tiredness; candidates regenerated from scratch and checked by Claude before any sheet |
| 2026-09-04 | Sam, whole v2 sheet | Seedream 5 lite edit | Locs loose again in every frame despite the tied-back wording and a tied-back pick | Hair changed to short cropped two-strand twists; bible updated; regenerated |
| 2026-09-04 | Marcus back view | Seedream 5 lite edit | Sunglasses hooked at the front collar rendered hanging down the back of the neck | Back-view prompt now says no sunglasses or accessories visible from behind |
| 2026-09-04 | Marcus lookB | Seedream 5 lite edit | Gallery plate rendered as an office with two monitors and framed art | lookB prompt now carries the full L08 gallery description and "not an office, not a lounge" |
| 2026-09-04 | Marcus action2 | Seedream 5 lite edit | Background "contestant" rendered as a minor in a grey tee | Action now names "two adult women in their mid-twenties in bikinis and sarongs" |
| 2026-09-04 | Priya action1 | Seedream 5 lite edit | "Arm around, talking close" rendered as an almost-kiss | Action now "sitting side by side, both facing forward, faces apart, no kissing" |
| 2026-09-04 | Brooke lookA | Seedream 5 lite edit | Fleece on the villa terrace | Brooke has a Look A variance (linen blazer) like Marcus |
| 2026-09-04 | Jules, Theo lookB | Seedream 5 lite edit | Contestants seated in the gallery, a story-logic fail | Contestants no longer get a lookB plate (viewsFor) |
| 2026-09-04 | L08 gallery, L09 monitor wall (v2) | Seedream 5 lite t2i | Wall screens showed suburban house exteriors again; the word "villa" in a feed description reads as a house exterior | Feeds described as rooms ("inside one house: pool terrace, bedroom with pastel headboards, kitchen island, fire pit, no house exteriors"); regenerated |
| 2026-09-04 | Nate, front candidates | Seedream 5 lite t2i | Prompt refused by fal's content checker (422 partner_validation_failed): "heavily muscled, no shirt" reference | Wardrobe now "fitted white tank top"; generator skips a refused character instead of aborting the batch |
| 2026-09-04 | Priya + Kaya two-shot (video test) | Wan 3.0 Prime r2v | Faithfully reproduced v1 reference props: five coral phones in Priya's hand, tray of empty flutes | Confirms the rule: props out of identity references (bible v0.3) |
| 2026-09-04 | Kaya, all body views | Seedream 5 lite t2i + edit | "Radio holstered at the hip" rendered as a boombox on a shoulder strap in the front and every body view (QC pass) | Wording is now "small handheld two-way walkie-talkie radio with a short antenna clipped to her belt"; front candidates and sheet regenerated; v1 kept in out/characters/kaya/old/ |
| 2026-09-04 | Gwen, fullbody and lookA | Seedream 5 lite edit | "Black pointed flats" gained a kitten heel in the styled environment renders; studio views stayed flat | Wording is now "flat black pointed-toe ballet flats with no heel"; two views regenerated |
| 2026-09-04 | Jules, Theo lookB | Seedream 5 lite edit | Contestants rendered inside the control room, which the story never allows | Not regenerated; contestant lookB plates are unused. Storyboard uses their villa plates and monitor-wall inserts only |
| 2026-09-04 | Dana, Priya | bible wording | "Left" for the silver streak and nose stud is ambiguous (screen vs anatomical); generation resolved consistently to one side | Bible to say "her left" when next revised; no drift observed |
| 2026-09-04 | gallery-wide, monitor-wall | Seedream 5 lite t2i | Monitors showed suburban houses, not villa feeds | Prompt now names the villa rooms the feeds show; regenerated |
| 2026-09-04 | Sam | Seedream 5 lite t2i | All 4 candidates had locs hanging loose; lock is "tied back low" | Identity block now says "single low ponytail with a black hair tie, no loose locs"; regenerated |
| 2026-09-04 | Priya | Seedream 5 lite t2i | Earbud rendered white (AirPod) instead of flesh-tone | Accepted; earbud is not on the never-change list |
| 2026-09-04 | Brooke | Seedream 5 lite t2i | Fleece renders forest green, duller than jade #00B37E |
Accepted for now; check against the Bulu ident card in Phase 8 |
| 2026-09-04 | Kaya | Seedream 5 lite t2i | Candidates 3 and 4 rendered the chin scar as a fresh cut | Picked candidate 1; keep "small faded scar" wording if regenerated |
| 2026-09-04 | Marcus, Look A | Seedream 5 lite edit | Shirt open two buttons, not three | Accepted; identity and sunglasses-on-head held |
| 2026-09-04 | Marcus, Look B | Seedream 5 lite edit | Key light more frontal than off-axis | Accepted for a reference plate; video prompts restate "shadow side to camera" |