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May 18, 2024

"Bad words" in Firefly description

  • May 18, 2024
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I asked firefly to make this:

 

draw a dark desert highway with a blue plasma globe at the end of the highway. Make it night time, and make the highway distressed, broken, possibly missing some parts of the street in some areas. Make it look post-apocalyptic. and make the blue plasma globe look like Nikola Tesla's invention

 

and I'm getting errors that "certain words" are unacceptable?  Unless your system tells me WHICH WORDS are "offensive", I'm going to keep chewing up more and more credits trying to figure it out.  That's stupid.  TELL ME the offending phrase!

4 replies

droopydog500
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 21, 2024

Hi @losdude,

 

I do not know for sure, but I suspect that Tesla as a trademark generates this issue rather than Nikola Tesla the inventor. While Adobe has said famous people are not part of training data, I am not sure how far back in history that goes—Adobe has not said.

 

    droopy

Adobe Community Expert (not an Adobe employee)
losdudeAuthor
Participant
May 21, 2024

If the model is not trained on proper names of people, then I wouldn't be able to say "draw X in the way DaVinci would have"?

losdudeAuthor
Participant
May 21, 2024

But I stated, "Nikola Tesla" who was an inventor, like Thomas Edison.  To me, this is a bug.

droopydog500
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 18, 2024

Hello @losdude,

 

It appears that "Tesla" is what triggered it. As is referenced in the document Adobe Generative AI User Guidelines , trademarked names cannot be used in generations, and I believe that is why it was blocked in this case.  Additionally, the model is not trained on proper names of people. I recommend that you find a generic synonym. I have found that large language models like Google Gemini, ChatGPT, or Microsoft Copilot can help with finding synonyms if I am stumped.

 

Good luck.

 

     droopy

 

 

 

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