I don't think Google has released the version of Gemini that is supposed to compete with GPT4 yet. The current version is apparently more on the level of GPT 3.5, so your observations don't surprise me
As an example, I had a photo of a beach I wanted to see if it knew the location of and it was blocked for inappropriate content. I stared at the picture for like 5 minutes confused until I blacked out the woman in a bikini standing on the beach and resubmitted the query at which point it processed it.
It's refused to do translation for me because the text contains 'rude language'. It's blocked my requests on copyright grounds.
I don't at all understand the heavy-handed censorship they're applying when they're behind in the market.
I asked if it was not allowed to write any code for any APIs and it said yes that’s true. FFS