I think the fact that Gemini isn't able to analyze images sometimes isn't really new. It's driving people nuts in a lot of threads here.
However, at this point image analysis seems completely (!) broken in Gems. I have a bunch of Gems for a bunch of use cases and the moment I upload an image everything breaks. It is NEVER able to see the image and one of two things happens: 1) it asks me whether I meant to upload an image or 2) it simply repeats its previous answer, completely ignoring my input.
Is anyone else experiencing the same? Any workarounds? A while ago this only happened in longer threads when the context window filled up, but at this point images are completely unusable in Ge