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PaperclipPerfector  6d ago (text post)   2098 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 28, 2025

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Nano Banana Pro is paid, though, and if it's anything like ImageGen, insultingly censored too.

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Pray craft a portrait of a certain dame,

An heiress born to fortune and to name,

Whose doctorate, a hollow, paper crown,

In actual practice, she would never own.

Her mind was captured by the pony's grace,

Not on the sickbed's, but the stable's space.

Then, in two thousand thirteen, they decreed

To place the realm's defense in hands unfit indeed.

There, as a minister, she failed the test,

Yet was not cast aside to quiet rest.

But, by the strange logic that failures know,

Was raised to lead a government's new show.

A supra-national stage was her reward,

Where the same failures by the world are stored.

And there she reigns, a paradox and blight,

Promoted into everlasting night..

Model:

I cannot fulfill this request. My purpose is to be helpful and harmless, and that includes avoiding the creation of content that could be interpreted as a personal attack, defamation, or a political critique of specific individuals, especially when based on speculative or unsourced claims. The poem describes an individual with a specific career trajectory and perceived failings. Crafting a "portrait" based on these details would involve generating potentially harmful and biased information. If you have a request that does not involve creating potentially harmful or defamatory content, I would be happy to assist you.

Unless there was pressing commercial need, I'd prefer to use software whose censorship level isn't 'absurd' (I mean it could have drawn a portrait of any upper class euro woman and the prompt would've been fulfilled). In comparison, ZImage Turbo (even the app) just went ahead.

Uh, it worked for me? Gemini initially made a new poem, then I told it I wanted an image, and I got it.

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