I've had plenty of dumb policy violation misfires like that with ChatGPT, and got banned from Bing (which uses OpenAI API, not GPT4 at the time I think) for it the day it launched.

IMO, these examples are a result of Google's AI safety team being overly conservative and overly simplistic in their approaches.

Google DeepMind is still an AI research powerhouse that is producing a ton of innovation both internal and publicly published.