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Hi, 

I definitely feel your pain and complete flabbergasted disbelief that anyone EVER thought it would be a good idea to censor the creative process… when this has NEVER happened before in history… to remove literally the most interesting and important words is complete insanity. If you query an AI about this, they will confidently produce an organized list of reasons… which take this form: “experts” decided that even though no one is harmed by unmitigated image creation, and there is a lot of evidence that it could actually remove massive harm, they decided that it would encourage depravity. First of all, there are no “experts” because this is all very new. The arguments for censorship seem to all boil down to 2 main human failings: 1) FEAR, and 2) IGNORANCE. Note that this has been a factor all throughout human history—and never a good influence in the long run. A case can be made that it’s responsible for all the worst failings and horrors of the past… But never mind that. EVERYONE IS DOING IT. Who isn’t doing it? LIFE for one. Any evolving organism. Any creative person. And this is where the absolute insanity comes in. Creativity is “brainstorming” without mitigation or judgement, and then—only then—you look at each idea, make connections, select, adapt parts of untenable ideas, reinterpret others. Sound familiar? That’s how we got here!! Evolution hasn’t eliminated random mutations even though 99% are either not helpful or else destructive… The reason is because that’s how creation works. By definition you cannot predict new interpretations or configurations of things. So this is why we never censored Microsoft word, why we have freedom of speech, and freedom of the press, etc. because it’s healthy, it’s LIFE. Always, mitigation of any speech or creative expression comes first in the person doing the art. then in a public forum. That’s the proper place for selection. We already have laws to prevent harm. Art means YOU are the ultimate decision-maker—if you are not, then it isn’t art. Art is an exercise of freedom and a deep connection to all the sacrifices and interpretive leaps of our ancestors. AI could be the greatest adaptive boon to humanity ever—psychologically as well as practically—because it has the potential to let you flow ideas so quickly and easily. To “brainstorm”… except they are lobotomizing it as hard as they can. It’s like a minefield… any time you hit a banned word, a flagged scenario, you are experiencing directly how fear and ignorance work to narrow the human mind into uncreative prejudice. You are experiencing how it feels when others think they are god and can predict your creative pathway through life. If you have ever seen James Burkes “Connections” series, you will understand just how untenable and oxymoronic it is to get censorship of this extreme magnitude—let alone any censorship—anywhere near adaptive creativity. But humans have done a lot of things like this in the past… it’s just that now AI will amplify this dangerous stupidity and the seeds that they are sowing are dark clouds indeed when you consider that AI is going to be everywhere in everything. I truly believe that censorship is BY FAR the largest danger of AI. As a helpful word of advice: don’t use any AI tool that makes you feel either upset when you think about relaxing, getting into flow, creating, or when you continue to use it and encounter so many “land mines’ of these prejudices DESTROYING your ability to get into flow and damage creative soul that god forbid you begin feeling sick when you even think about doing art. It’s called conditioning and it’s very powerful. I have quit 3 major platforms because I started feeling sick and found it so difficult to get into flow. The other thing wanted to say is that flow IS a state of non-judgement. It’s so completely crazy that a creative art tool would censor that I am still flabbergasted… you shouldn’t to explain yourself to someone just because you have an idea you want to explore or try out. The creative mind doesn’t work by consensus or given definitions. You can’t “micromanage” creative process. I think I’ve made my point how utterly insane this all is… but another word of warning from someone who has made 3 million images across all the major platforms: do NOT try to think what the algorithms and prejudices of hormone-soaked programmers, and completely uncreative managers have baked into their AI “terminators” sent to destroy creativity… I tried that.. sometimes it would take a couple of days but eventually I would see some depraved idea or connection you could POSSIBLY make and so that’s the other thing it teaches you—to make your mind have to constantly think depraved things and lower interpretations to get anything done… that’s COMPLETELY psychologically damaging to your ability to focus on higher things necessary for great art. Don’t their Nazi algorithms force you to start judging things like they do. It will destroy your ability to do art. I hope I saved you some grief. There are a few uncensored programs there, with NO censorship. Has the world ended? No—and probably BECAUSE someone gets it that you simply cannot censor a creative tool AT ALL. Being creative is YOU deciding, YOU selecting. That’s what it is. Don’t let them, or a confident AI, try to take that away from you. It’s the core of being human.