Content Policies are downright crippling!

Why is this getting flagged with ‘I’m unable to generate images for that request because it violates our content policies.’ ???

“Create six detailed plastic board game avatars, each in their own panel.
Each avatar represents a survivor girl from a harsh alien world, rugged and battle-worn.
She has wild, shoulder-length hair and wears a ragged sci-fi survival outfit.”

The restrictions in place are not just overzealous — they are creatively crippling. I’m not attempting to generate anything inappropriate, exploitative, or unethical. What I am trying to create are dramatic, emotional, adventurous, and intense scenes — the same types of scenes you’d find in mainstream books, games, movies, and shows aimed at young audiences.

But your system blocks anything that dares to include stakes, danger, conflict, or struggle — the very ingredients that make a story worth telling. A kid pulling another out of a magic portal? Rejected. A survival scene? Flagged. A horror-themed board game setup? Denied.

The result is a sterilized platform that punishes creativity and reduces storytelling to sanitized fluff. You’ve built an incredible tool, but then locked it in a padded room.

If you’re serious about supporting artists, storytellers, and game developers, then give us the tools we need — and the trust to use them responsibly. Content moderation should be about context, not blanket censorship. Because right now, you’re alienating the very creators who would be your most passionate supporters.

Until those changes happen, understand this: every time you block something harmless under the guise of “safety,” you push users further away — and closer to any future tool that respects their vision.

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Yeah it stifles the creative process for sure. I’m in the same boat but for research projects on faces. Trying to get it to generate faces with extreme expressions, even just the word kiss, is restrictive. This is hyper restrictive moderation and we are avoiding using and paying because of it at the moment.

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This is why they will either adapt or begin losing plus or even pro subscribers. The censorship is getting out of hand, and I’ve filled a complaint in their help section, but i haven’t received any answer yet from a consultant, and it’s been days. Anything that isn’t PG-3 is nsfw according to their guideline policies.

A prompt that chatgpt suggested for rendering an image got flagged as “violating content policies” - so chatgpt violated its own content policies? I merely asked it to suggest a prompt, and then it asked me if i want to render the image, and it got flagged. When i asked it what was wrong with the prompt it crafted by itself, it only assumed this or that, because it doesn’t actually know what was wrong with the prompt and why the image didn’t go through.

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