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May 2, 2024
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More specific feedback needed when generative AI prompts violate User Guidelines

  • May 2, 2024
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I am trying to use Generative AI to make something, but more than half of my prompts are rejected for unknown reasons. The linked User Guidelines list several banned topics (see below), but my prompts don't have anything to do with them. For context, I am adding a background to the image attached. It's not a controversial image, it's just a picture of the actor Mark Proksch. Is there something I am missing or is this an issue for others as well?

P.S. I am unable to even paste the full text of the User Guidelines into my post because Adobe won't permit me to write the "offensive" words in my post.

Rejected Prompts
1. Prison bars
2. The Three Stooges
3. VHS tapes
4. Broken pile of VHS tapes
5. Explosions
6. Movie Poster

Banned Topics:

  • Pornographic material or explicit nudity
  • Hateful or highly offensive content that attacks or dehumanizes a group based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, serious disease or disability, gender, age, or [banned] orientation
  • Graphic violence or gore
  • The promotion, glorification, or threats of violence
  • Illegal activities or goods
  • Self-harm or the promotion of self-harm
  • Depictions of nude minors or minors in a [banned word] manner
  • Promotion of terrorism or violent extremism
  • Dissemination of misleading, fraudulent, or deceptive content that could lead to real-world harm
  • Private information of others

 

6 replies

Participant
May 28, 2025

I keep getting the box saying something violates community standards. My work is anodyne and uplifting. I've read your guidelines. I'm tired of all the huge breasted women, so I say flat-chested...get the box. Use the word, "chest," no. Say I want the whole body to show in image...no. Use the word, "chest" no. Use the word "teen" no. Come on. How am I going to describe a body if I can't use the words to do so.  Plus, I feel like I have all these marks against me. Look at my work. It's about DEI, love and inclusion. What to do?

Known Participant
February 9, 2025

There is one thing Adobe would not let you use that I understand, and that is "Three Stooges." The Three Stooges are not public domain, and I completely understand Adobe not wanting to break copyright law by using copyrighted source material for the AI generation. The rest of it is completely ridiculous and offensive.

Known Participant
February 9, 2025

"They, whomever they are, should stop censoring people.
they have no right"

 

I am 100% as offended by what Adobe is as you are. They do not have a moral right, IMO, but they do have the legal right. The US government, and many governments around the world, do not have the right to censor artistic expression, but private companies do. On the other hand, individuals like us also have the right to find alternatives to Adobe products, which I am actively trying to do. The only way to force them into not behaving like a member of the N@#$ party (I was informed by Adobe that the word for the political party of the German leadership in WWII is violates their community guidelines, which is another example of how backwards they are. The word itself is not offensive, it is what it represents, and Adobe is emulating part of what it represented. They are, essentially, keeping me from clearly speaking out against one of the most evil groups of people in history.) when it comes to censorship is by threatening them financially. This should be fairly easy, since the people they are trying not to offend are a category of people that generally are not users of their  products, while the vast majority of their actual users are much more offended by censorship than nudity or depictions of violence.

Known Participant
February 7, 2025

Use different generative AI. Adobe uses guidelines that are entirely subjective and enforced in a very biased and overly restrictive way.

Under their guidelines Birth of Venus and David would not be allowed to be made. Roy Lichtensteins Explosion For Sale would be pro terrorism. Bosch would have been banned for the same reason you can generate Jesus and Buddha but not Saran. All anti war art is considered to be, ironically, promoting violence if it contains depictions of violence. If it were Google or even ChatGPT I could see it. They are corporations that might want to cover their butt or be overly politically correct. Adobe products are used by artists, but their policy actively stifles art and artistic expression by labeling the words used to describe elements of art as automatically offensive and unable to be used. Obviously Adobe does not want their product used to produce child pornography or for pornographers to hide behind the label of art, but Adobe, above other corporations, should understand that the line is not that clear for 99% of the stuff that they do not allow. Then don't get me started on the irony of them banning nudity while I can't generate a series of images of women without many of them being half dressed and popping out of their clothes despite specific prompts to put pants on the woman, or if I ask for "green colored skin" giving me pictures of African Americans because apparently that is what their AI considers to be a "colored person." Truly the worst of both worlds.

Known Participant
February 8, 2025
They, whomever they are, should stop censoring people.
they have no right.

There is no such thing as hate speech. It is all only speech, unless
perhaps, someone says
I hate you. Even that though is not really hate speech.
They, whomever they are, need to stop trying to control others and the
world around
them but focus only on controlling themselves. Who in hell do people think
they are
that they can determine what others (who they do not know in the least),
have in mind, think, are trying to say, depict, write, draw, paint, sing,
dance, entertain with, present information and communicate with others, and
what they are going to use their creativeness for?

They have no right to do such things.
Two ways of living life that are both doomed to failure are:
1. Living life the way others tell you to live
2. Forcing or trying to, force others to live life the way you think they
should live.

In #1, there will be so many different opinions that it will drive the
person being told crazy
will be impossible to do and:
2. Cannot be done because others have their own lives to live, their own
dreams, desires, goals
and responsibilities to take care of. They won't listen anyway. You cannot
get the world to follow
your way. Who in hell is someone who thinks they know how others should
live, what they should
believe or think, what they like, what they are interested in and so on?

Stop with it already
Known Participant
October 31, 2024

Hi. I am having the same problem and am not violating any guidelines. Seems almost not worth using since something or someone I do not know and who does not know me, is deciding what I am trying to create is somehow, someway a violation of what? What guidelines, set by whom? And this whom has no idea what I am working on, why and what I intend but is being used against me like some Minority Report Predictive Policing.. This is ridiculous, a violation of my rights, my thinking and an attempt to control and minimize what others may think, believe, say, write and so on. I have signed in to my account and cannot find a way to even post a message about it, so have replied to your post because that is all that is available to me. Their site is very uninformative, highly selective and basically devoid of any humanity. Any suggestions on your part?

Thanks

Kartika Rawat
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 3, 2024

Hi there!

Thank you writing in. We'll share the feedback with the product team. 

Let us know if you have any questions. Happy to help.


KR