What does Google say Product Studio cannot do or should not be used for (hands, wall art, light fixtures, regulated goods, availability)? Experimental; works best on simple packaged goods; unsupported categories listed.

Problem. Before building a workflow on an AI background-replacement tool, a seller needs the stated scope limits. Conditions. Product Studio inside Merchant Center (and the Google & YouTube app on Shopify). Method. Check each product against the stated limits: it works best for consumer packaged goods with the product front and centre; images with hands, wall art and light fixtures are unsupported; image or video creation is unsupported for regulated goods (alcohol, drugs, pharmaceuticals, gambling-related products, weapons, tobacco, fireworks, health and medical devices); available to all Merchant Center users except those in RU and FR (Shopify app: except RU); the Generate Video feature is limited to Australia, Canada, India, Japan, the UK and the US; descriptions work best in ten listed languages. Failure modes. The page warns the feature 'may generate unexpected images' (so every output needs human inspection against the real product, an inference about practice). Limitations. 'Walled art' appears in the Merchant Center text and 'wall art' in the Shopify text, so the exact category wording is inconsistent between the two pages. Version and date. Undated pages fetched 2026-10-24. Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Limitations: These are Google's own scope statements, not measured quality. The pages carry a vendor survey (80 percent efficiency, n=149, March 2024) that is not independent and is not used here. Shopify's own help pages (Shopify Magic background generation) returned a bot-verification page and could not be read. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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