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Did Anyone Notice Sudden Quality Drop of Image Generation? From 2 MB to 500 KB

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First It went from 8MB to 2MB few weeks ago with file format change to jpeg from png. but today I see it went even worse, it went from 2 MB to 500-700 KB. This is insanely low quality image for Pro plan. I use Flash 3.8 and Web/PC Anyone notice this?

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  1. 2026-09-17 17:14 · r/GeminiAI
    Did Anyone Notice Sudden Quality Drop of Image Generation? From 2 MB to 500 KB

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