Bonus points: If dall-e rejects an output image because it thinks the image is inappropriate they won't show it. But they will still charge you for the prompt.

How is this legal? If someone commissions a painting from you, you're not allowed to just say "I'm not giving you the painting, but I'm keeping your money." Why does doing it with a computer make it okay?

Is there even a public keyword list of words you’re not supposed to include?

There is no public list. Someone on reddit compiled a very limited list here: https://old.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/wa3jt6/banned_words...

The problem is that they will automatically ban accounts that trigger the filter too much, so people would have to burn a whole lot of accounts to assemble an even remotely-complete list.

Holy shit that list is insane. A lot of those words being banned would limit you enormously if you're trying to create art.

But it never has been about art?

This list seems incomplete. I've had the filter triggered on words like 'thong' as in thong slippers as well.

I wonder if they keep that private to avoid people finding work arounds.

It’s perhaps not a simple list but an AI classifier, perhaps GPT-3 based.

Nuclear was apparently confirmed on the list, but I have recently used it to generate cool things around nuclear power. So suppose it is like you say.