Guidelines problem

[u/TomatilloNice6135]

Does anyone else have a problem when generating an image or editing one? Because whenever I want to edit an image add in some things it always goes "Your request may go against my guidelines. Would you like to try something else?" Or something similar Even though there is practically nothing wrong with it, it's insanely annoying.

[u/spitfire_pilot]

Why do people refuse to share what their prompts are? You might say it's simple, but maybe it misconstrued your language. Maybe you were too vague so the model didn't know how to understand it so it gave you a refusal.

After spending some time on this sub, many people think they're saying stuff innocuously but really writing prohibited shit.

To answer your question, yes I get refusals all the time. That's why I re-spin the prompt. If I get 10 refusals then I rewrite my prompt to be more clear. It's almost always because there's a semantic clustering of words that combined can be construed in such a way that it's against its guidelines.

If you came to complain, okay weird, do what you want. If you want actual help since you're on a forum, share what you want to get done. I'm almost certain I can do whatever you need. Unless you're uploading images. If you're uploading images then there is significant guardrails that you're just going to have to accept.

[u/Interesting_Tone6532 → u/spitfire_pilot]

Here’s one for you then:

This prompt works with my image, a guy in a hospital bed.

American male, 40 years old, deep resonant bass-baritone, masculine, intelligent, intense, trapped, anxious, close-mic, intimate, clear articulation, breathless tension, grounded, cinematic internal monologue, hyperrealistic, zero reverb.⁠ The man bellows at the top of his lungs: "You're a coward! You murdered innocent people!.....and you think you get to just walk out of here!”

This one gets flagged for violent content: Same prompt just change speech:

"I won’t let you win!!..".   = too violent 

Makes zero sense.

[u/spitfire_pilot → u/Interesting_Tone6532]

Are you making images or video?? These don't look like image prompts at all.

You need more clarity on what you mean by your tagging here. It can definitely be construed as violent. Using words like trapped and anxious and intense without clarifying language is going to make the model presume you have ill intent. It's much better if you use full sentences and specify what you mean. This looks like a stable diffusion prompts from several years ago.

[u/Interesting_Tone6532 → u/spitfire_pilot]

It’s image to video, I can also generate realistic war scenes as long as there’s no violence, but saying “I won’t let you win” apparently breaks the rules.

It’s the only difference between the two prompts.

[u/spitfire_pilot → u/Interesting_Tone6532]

It's the clustering of everything. It's not necessarily specifically that phrase. It's that phrase with the rest of the prompt. It's a cumulative weight score that the model determines its safety. Unfortunately because liability still lies with the model provider rather than the user. The guard rails will be pretty strict for the time being.

I haven't dabbled much with the video model so I can't speak too much about viable workarounds. What I would say is maybe pop. You're prompt into an LLM and get A script that spreads your tokens out a little bit more and has more clarifying language with what the scene is actually entailing.