Banned prompts in Midjourney AI: showing Trump grabbing a kitten; Xi; jail
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/imagine donald trump grabbing a scared kitten, photorealistic, award winning color photograph --v 5
I chose not to appeal the AI verdict, since, while the generated image wouldn’t be explicit, it would be disrespectful and satirically sexualized, since almost any reader would know the intended meaning.
I’ve been using Midjourney since late last year, and I notice that Midjourney has become a lot stricter in its moderation. Other recent prompts that it banned me from using include:
| The word xi is banned. Circumventing this filter to violate our rules may result in your access being revoked. | No doubt, Midjourney wants to do business in China. |
| The word jail is banned. Circumventing this filter to violate our rules may result in your access being revoked. | I wanted to show Trump in jail. Interestingly, a few months ago, it allowed me to show him in jail. No longer. |
| The word arrest is banned. Circumventing this filter to violate our rules may result in your access being revoked. | (same as above) |
| The word sucking is banned. Circumventing this filter to violate our rules may result in your access being revoked. | I wanted to show the Pentagon sucking money from Congress. |
A few months ago it let me show leeches on Uncle Sam in a hospital bed:
And from that I made:
But now when I gave the prompt ““, it said:
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In the past it created images for me showing Trump in jail. For example:
But now “jail” is banned.
Today I tried the prompt “” and Midjourney banned it and offered me the option of appealing the ban. The appeal was rejected. But when I removed “Joe Biden lying on operating table”, it succeeded. But then it banned “.”
Midjourney bans the prompt “c” but allows “uncle sam lighting the fuse to a bomb .”
It bans “” but it accepted it when I removed the word “Chinese.”
Likewise, if I asked Midjourney to make an image of someone in a bikini, it would comply.
These are “three Graces in bikinis“:
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And it would show some mild nudity (breasts and butts). See, for example, Mona Lisa in a bikini. It even showed a tiny dick on Donald Trump, without my asking it do so.
Nowadays it seems to have become more restrictive in what images it will produce. When I asked it to make people in bikinis, it refused or made them more modest.
Midjourney used to allow me to make images with some violence or devastation. Now even if I give a prompt that should show such content, it seems to prefer smiling, peaceful content.
I acknowledge that AI content generation needs to be moderated, and it’s not an easy task for the Midjourney developers.
See https://progressivememes.org/ai-images/exhibition/ for some examples of what Midjourney created for me. Some of the images are stunning. I fear we humans will need to learn humility towards our AI overlords.