I’m fed up with this ongoing problem. As a Tier 5 developer who’s spent over $3,000, it’s unacceptable that when using the OpenAI Playground with the o1 and o3 models, even simple prompts like “Hello” are flagged as violating usage policy. Yet, the same prompts work fine with the chatgpt4o model. T…

Welcome to the community! Are you by chance asking these models to explain their reasoning? Maybe in the dev prompt? If so, it’s likely a “valid” rejection, because OAI seems to be deathly afraid of exposing its CoT secrets. It kinda sucks and is obviously an unnecessary hurdle for the sake of pr…

No, I did not request any explanations from him. At first, I was simply seeking clarification on some coding problems. I experimented with different prompts, yet each one returned an invalid prompt message. Eventually, I realized that even a simple “hi” would lead to the same problem. I was trying t…

A developer message is not the place to say “hi” to this AI model. :grimacing: It is for instructions and behaviors. I would ensure that you have a good identity message there that covers all possible uses, and has a different message of your own that the AI should produce if the input is outside …

The same, using the user message without any system prompt. <a class="lightbox" href="https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/0/8/a/08a4c876c88b55d57b3e0cf4cee539a887687416.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/1esRGjwsBpshzWwIvLpqSdVNsA6.png?dl=1" title="The image shows a screenshot of a chat interface in OpenAI's Playground, where a user's message "hi" is flagged with an error message indicating the prompt potentially violates usage policy. (Captioned by AI)" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">[The image shows a screenshot of a chat interface in OpenAI's Playground, where a user's message "hi" is flagged with an error message indicating the prompt potentially violates usage policy. (Captioned by AI)]

And yet, simply follow my instructions - no issues. [A screenshot shows a chat interface where a user says "hi" and the assistant responds with a greeting and offers help. (Captioned by AI)] o1-mini which you show, which doesn’t have a developer message, doesn’t have much reason to use it at the …

I now believe the issue lies with the account, as there are restrictions on using o1 and o3, yet this reason is given as shown in the image. The same system prompt works fine in gpt4o, and previously my o1 could access the API without any issues. However, recently problems have arisen, and I noticed…

Yep, if you are persistently getting flags with inputs I demonstrate, I would contact support through “help” → “messages”, clearly laying out that it has been diagnosed as an account-specific issue needing escalation to OpenAI support staff.

Thank you. I still haven’t received any response from the official personnel since providing my feedback.

Why are simple prompts flagged as violating policy?

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Gaussian March 4, 2025, 12:56am 10

Any feedback now? I have the same problem here.

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Why are simple prompts flagged as violating policy?

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