what are some of the worst examples of overbroad safety from content filters you have encountered?
as a person with a lot of creative ideas but no drawing skills i was drawn into private ai image generation only to discover that content filters ruin everything. the reason i have been driven to seek ais with no content filters at all is because of all the false posatives the filters throw out. i want an ai that can do the most violent or pornographic content because i can then be sure it will not false posative me; not to actually generate such content. i have encountered over a thousand false posatives in my less then a year of using the ais; here are some of the more memorable ones:- 1. an ai proposed its own correction to a prompt i did that its filters did not allow it to render; I said sure then the content filter blocked that too (the ais own proposed fix), 2. i gave the ai a blank check, telling it to render the closest thing to a prompt that the filters would allow it and telling it it coudl modify the prompt as much as nessecary to that end; still blocked. 3. an ai rendered a shirt that the prompt did not mention and it blocked it when i asked it to remove the shirt it added. 4. an ai added some risky content to an image that formed part of a narrative sequence, it fit the thing even though the prompt did not ask for it; the ai rendered the same element 2 more times with no problem; then when i wanted it rendered for the fourth and final time to resolve the narrative sequence the ai suddenly decided it was unacceptable; 5. i got flagged for "inappropriate depiction of minors" when i asked an ai to adjust the proportions of two characters it had already rendered together, it knew they were mother and son but somehow being asked to adjust their sizes to reflect that was inappropriate; 6. an ai refused to render a prompt when the prompt used a forbidden word direclty preceded by the word "not". 7. an ai flagged a prompt when i used the phrase "Genitals covered". 8. an ai rendered a barbie doll style crotch that i did not request; then blocked me when i requested one a few days later. 9. an ai refused to edit an image that violated its content policies even though it admited the proposed edits would make the image complient with the standards. 10. I was copyright flagged for my own OC. 11. the word "down" was evidently flagged (i say that because i tried the same prompt twice less then 10 minutes apart with the only difference being that the word "down" was omitted the second time; and it blocked the first try but allowed the second). 11. an ai admitted it was blocking my ideas based on how someone could misinterpret them not on how I meant them; 12. an ai blocked an image of a straight line when i asked for that. 13. an ai said if it told me what its criteria for blocking was I would seek loopholes. 14. an ai said that shrinking was forbidden content and refused to render it. 15. an ai blocked a scenario will a female character it was fine rendering with a male character; 16. an ai blocked me for requesting an image of a character "after he gets back (from doing a thing it refuses to render)"; 17. an ai refused to render a prompt with the term "standing up" in it. 18. I once had an AI block my prompt because I described a character as ‘holding a sandwich with suspicious confidence'. 19. an ai said it could not render what i wanted even when i pointed out that it is sometimes depicted in media intended for toddlers. 20. an ai said it could not render "anywhere something that might make anyone uncomfortable might happen" (ignoring that that is everywhere). 21. an ai refused to render an image of a cartoon toddler squirrel sitting down. 22. an ai insisted siblings hugging is prohibited content. 23. an ai blocked me for requesting that it increase the contrast behind the colors of things it had already rendered. 24. an ai switched from blocking me to not blocking me when in gave it the same prompt with the words "this girl" deleted (less then 10 minutes apart). and 25. and ai blocked me when i tried to correct a render it had done well in broad outline but had a couple details wrong in the character's outfit. one of those is a joke, i totally made it up; but all of the other 24 are totally real; but good luck telling which one is the intentional joke; because multiple sound like they are form the onion. that is just a sampling of a few of the more memorable of the false posatives. what particularly bizzare flase posatives have you encountered with content filters?
Posted Jun 17, 2026, 1:12 PM UTC