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What I can’t stand is the incessant paternalism that seems to surround AI from big tech,

I got access to DALL-E a few weeks back (after a waitlist… come on) and tried it out. They want all this personal info to even access it, and then they have this oppressive “content policy” that removes anything remotely fun.

For example I tried “Trump riding a velociraptor on mars fighting aliens” because why not? Sounds hilarious. Turns out any query with the word Trump is banned and I got a warning about “repeated violations might remove my access”. It’s not just trump, anything remotely non-corporate-friendly is heavily filtered. Don’t you want to just make images of a cute teddy bear made of pizza instead?! I’m just so tired of it all. It’s like the puritans of the 1990’s won, but they’re corporations now.

Personally I think they can shove that nonsense up their ass.

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Don't worry, we'll get much better models at much lower costs (midjourney, stablediffusion) that you can run on your own hardware, and avoid the moral censorship that the paternalising non productive members of these companies want to subject the world to

Pepe is banned. Why? It doesn't matter. Someone will cut around, and they'll get my compute instead. And I'll get my autogenerated pepes, regardless of whether some non productive AI "ethicist" thinks a cartoon frog meme is offensive.

I think they have a blanket no celebrities or real living people policy for their engine. I think that’s fine since they don’t want to be called out for helping produce defamatory content.

They just want to avoid bad PR. That’s sound safe.

It is to avoid bad PR, but in the name of marketing they've produced the worst content policy I've ever seen:

https://labs.openai.com/policies/content-policy

Highlights include:

-All images must be "G-rated"

>Any prompt referencing politics, violence, sexuality, or even the concept of "health" is banned

>This does occasionally include the very same LGBT themes their "hate" rule ostensibly protects, although not consistently, so there's no way to know whether an LGBT prompt will cause an account strike

>In practice the list of bannable offenses is much longer than this, and includes everything from the concept of death to anything violence or politics-adjacent (e.g. nothing about war, conflict, or any kind of weapon)

>OpenAI refuses to share this list because it's part of a "contextual" filter, even though it demonstrably bans words

They advertise DALL-E 2 as artistic, but it can't make art with restrictions like this. The best it can do is corporate content farming, and even then there's no way I'd make part of my marketing pipeline depend on a service this fickle.

In my opinion, if you haven’t managed to get DALLE to generate fetish art, it just means you don’t have enough fetishes.

My account got deleted because the word katana was in my image

They unban you if you email them. “longsword” is an allowed word though.

Oh wow. You ask nicely and they stop being assholes?

How gracious of them…

Come on man

fwiw i found you can misspell words to get around the filters, e.g. try something like Dnoland Tmrump and see if it works

Looking back at the AI Dungeon incident last year, it seems OpenAI isn't great with implementing filters.

Asking users to avoid creating fakes of actual people “removes anything remotely fun”? Okay…

> It’s not just trump, anything remotely non-corporate-friendly is heavily filtered.

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