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 h…

@tebok73509 @ggabis @chrolm @stickyribbs @t888terminator Sorry to hear and read that you are running into issues with the content policy! Since this topic is in the API category can you please confirm that you are not encountering these issues with ChatGPT but with the API? Thank you, I appreciat…

[image] VeitB: Since this topic is in the API category can you please confirm that you are not encountering these issues with ChatGPT but with the API? My bad, my issues are with ChatGPT, not the API. What about us, ChatGPT plus subscribers though? I tried addressing this issue using the help…

Well, this is the Developer Community so we can escalate to the Developer Relations team for priority bugfixing, if that’s even possible in this case. ChatGPT related issues all go through help.openai.com I’m sorry if this is not the answer you were hoping for.

I only wish the chatgpt issues team was as responsive as you were. And yes, I tried help.openai.com to no success. Thank you for trying nevertheless.

From what I can tell, both API calls and ChatGPT calls go to the same, currently broken, endpoint. I’ve been trying to get this acknowledged for a month on the ChatGPT side, no luck, but when they rolled the API, it’s clearly calling the exact same API. There’s no evidence that moderation flag doe…

As you can imagine, I’m not going to continue “testing” the API for OpenAI knowing I’ll be billed for every failure in the hope that at some point it’s been fixed, so I’m continuing to do my testing in ChatGPT where I won’t be billed for it, until I hear otherwise. [Moderation Issue v2] Essential…

If you complain about that requests violate the content policies then you do not realize that censorship is part of the content policies of openai. I don’t know how to make that clear without someone flagging my comment as violating the content policies and thus censoring it. THIS is NOT off-topic!

[image] kw: If you complain about that requests violate the content policies then you do not realize that censorship is part of the content policies of openai. (Takes deep breath and counts to ten) Umm… we are all aware of that, and this is the problem. The censorship is far too strict.

My issue isn’t strictly the strictness. It’s that - If this IS the policy, then it needs to be published, and it needs to be consistently applied, and that’s what makes it clear it’s honestly broken, rather than just “a strict policy.” But the official line we were given in ChatGPT Land was - “It’…

[image] Senex_Archmagus: In ChatGPT, no biggy, but in API land, we get charged for every failure, and that’s my issue. As a chatgpt plus user, I’m affected by the same inconsistent and opaque policy guidelines. Sure, I don’t get charged for failed image renditions, but they still get deducted…

Content Policies are downright crippling!

ChatGPT

Maximilus August 31, 2026, 7:17am 28

i found this, but it only works on the website, maybe it could be adapted for the API?

github,com/4as/Chat-DeMod

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Content Policies are downright crippling!

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