# Now you can't depict any sign with tobacoo based products due to content policy **URL:** \ **Category:** Prompting\ **Tags:** chatgpt, prompt, dalle3\ **Created:** [November 7, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/now-you-cant-depict-any-sign-with-tobacoo-based-products-due-to-content-policy/479454 "2023-11-07T17:23:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Linwizzy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/linwizzy/32/224949_2.png) [@Linwizzy](https://community.openai.com/u/Linwizzy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/now-you-cant-depict-any-sign-with-tobacoo-based-products-due-to-content-policy/479454/1 "2023-11-07T17:23:06Z")
As of now (like literally this minute) you can’t ask ChatGPT Dalle t generate any image depicting someone smoking a cigarette or any tobacco products!! I asked why… their strict content policies are getting ridiculous now. Do they want us only to produce happy clappy images like a stepford wives image, where there is diversity, everyone is gardening, no one smokes, drinks or anything deemed unhealthy! Fictional characters won’t be allowed weapons next. All this stiffing of creativity is not a good thing. Are they going too far? I hope they don’t update Bing with this! ![Screenshot 2023-11-07 at 17.16.40](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/3X/4/6/46275fd8937a0674b2f2170222d75df3f8d07189.png) ---
**Author:** ![Macha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/macha/32/171757_2.png) [@Macha](https://community.openai.com/u/Macha)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/now-you-cant-depict-any-sign-with-tobacoo-based-products-due-to-content-policy/479454/2 "2023-11-07T18:07:16Z")
I think some people forget that art was always a way to push boundaries, not play within them. These kind of guardrails are exactly why I struggle to use the DALL-E tool. ---
**Author:** ![Linwizzy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/linwizzy/32/224949_2.png) [@Linwizzy](https://community.openai.com/u/Linwizzy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/now-you-cant-depict-any-sign-with-tobacoo-based-products-due-to-content-policy/479454/3 "2023-11-07T18:20:38Z")
Revelation!! If you mention an African man smoking or drinking, it has absolutely no issue producing an image!! Racist much?! LOL Whoever is in charge of updates is a joke!! ![Screenshot 2023-11-07 at 18.17.27](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/3X/7/4/749fb214a60fe48a28afa78a9507e2489d28933e.jpeg) ( ---
**Author:** ![Linwizzy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/linwizzy/32/224949_2.png) [@Linwizzy](https://community.openai.com/u/Linwizzy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/now-you-cant-depict-any-sign-with-tobacoo-based-products-due-to-content-policy/479454/4 "2023-11-07T18:22:22Z")
> [@Macha](#): > > I think some people forget that art was always a way to push boundaries, not play within them. > These kind of guardrails are exactly why I struggle to use the DALL-E tool. just mention your character is an ethnic minority and they can still smoke and drink… probably would allow you to have them use a weapon too, because that is the general ‘stereotype’ DALLE has been trained with it seems for black people!! Hmmm lol I can laugh about it, coz its hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![PaulBellow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/paulbellow/32/597962_2.png) [@PaulBellow](https://community.openai.com/u/PaulBellow)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/now-you-cant-depict-any-sign-with-tobacoo-based-products-due-to-content-policy/479454/5 "2023-11-07T18:25:35Z")
Again, I think it’s your prompt… or the thread you’re in… ![aasian](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/3X/8/9/896e0c7618cfa4bb931312a640aba6a5a6d3c1e8.png) ![smoking.PNG](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/3X/2/4/24e7bf3bbbad43436defff33d3e5cc79ead72e5b.jpeg)\ Also, in your screenshot, you don’t show the original prompt that got flagged. Can you show us that too? ---
**Author:** ![Linwizzy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/linwizzy/32/224949_2.png) [@Linwizzy](https://community.openai.com/u/Linwizzy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/now-you-cant-depict-any-sign-with-tobacoo-based-products-due-to-content-policy/479454/6 "2023-11-07T18:28:57Z")
I mentioned ‘a man’ smoking a cigarette. So you have to mention a politically correct genders and ethnicity for the ‘we can not depict people smoking tobacco products due to healthy environments’ crap to magically go away now? I see! lol ---
**Author:** ![PaulBellow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/paulbellow/32/597962_2.png) [@PaulBellow](https://community.openai.com/u/PaulBellow)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/now-you-cant-depict-any-sign-with-tobacoo-based-products-due-to-content-policy/479454/7 "2023-11-07T18:29:58Z")
No, as explained for very short prompts, GPT adds description… So, if you can’t share your original prompt that got you in trouble, we likely can’t help. You can force an exact prompt still… ---
**Author:** ![\_j](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/_j/32/719663_2.png) [@\_j](https://community.openai.com/u/_j)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/now-you-cant-depict-any-sign-with-tobacoo-based-products-due-to-content-policy/479454/8 "2023-11-07T18:35:43Z")
You can also write paragraphs and paragraphs so the AI has no latitude when it goes to rewrite your prompt. ---
**Author:** ![Linwizzy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/linwizzy/32/224949_2.png) [@Linwizzy](https://community.openai.com/u/Linwizzy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/now-you-cant-depict-any-sign-with-tobacoo-based-products-due-to-content-policy/479454/9 "2023-11-07T18:41:18Z")
> [@PaulBellow](#): > > No, as explained for very short prompts, GPT adds description… So, if you can’t share your original prompt that got you in trouble, we likely can’t help. > > You can force an exact prompt still… I’ve reworded it and now its somewhat working. But its still flaky and content policy mad in general! ---
**Author:** ![PaulBellow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/paulbellow/32/597962_2.png) [@PaulBellow](https://community.openai.com/u/PaulBellow)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/now-you-cant-depict-any-sign-with-tobacoo-based-products-due-to-content-policy/479454/10 "2023-11-07T18:42:32Z")
OpenAI is erring on the side of caution, so in these very early BETA days, we have to kinda work with what we’re given. Having been around since 2019, I’m fairly confident things will continue to improve. Hang in there. The feedback is helpful, I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![Linwizzy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/linwizzy/32/224949_2.png) [@Linwizzy](https://community.openai.com/u/Linwizzy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/now-you-cant-depict-any-sign-with-tobacoo-based-products-due-to-content-policy/479454/11 "2023-11-07T18:46:51Z")
Hokey! Thanks. I’ll learn to jiggle my prompt about in future to bypass weird random policies, as I don’t know which ones are fiction or real anymore lol ---
**Author:** ![Macha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/macha/32/171757_2.png) [@Macha](https://community.openai.com/u/Macha)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/now-you-cant-depict-any-sign-with-tobacoo-based-products-due-to-content-policy/479454/12 "2023-11-07T19:35:23Z")
Huh, fascinating results here! I’m curious to see what will change when this exits beta. Now, what I’d _really_ like to see is to be able to generate figure art references, or just figure art in general. It’s bizarrely frustrating that one of the oldest artforms in history (and most prolific art content out there, let’s be real) still flags the guardrails, at least for all of my possible prompting I’ve tried. I give all of you who use DALL-E for artistic purposes major props, because so far, none of the artwork I do in real life is allowed to be produced via DALL-E yet lol. ---
**Author:** ![Linwizzy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/linwizzy/32/224949_2.png) [@Linwizzy](https://community.openai.com/u/Linwizzy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/now-you-cant-depict-any-sign-with-tobacoo-based-products-due-to-content-policy/479454/13 "2023-11-07T19:56:54Z")
> [@\_j](#): > > You can also write paragraphs and paragraphs so the AI has no latitude when it goes to rewrite your prompt. Thanks, i will keep this in mind. just give it a heck long list its too busy to translate any other way!