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by VeninVidiaVicii 1202 days ago
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this whole AI phenomenon has been the overzealous censorship.

Here I tried to make a slide deck: Acinetobacter baumannii essential gene network.

>Sorry, we couldn't generate a presentation due to a content issue. Content related to sexual, hate, violence or health topics is prevented. Please try again with different text. The filter is far from perfect, if you believe this flag is a mistake, please contact us at tom@slidesgpt.com

Sure okay.

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I tried to generate slides with "Bible" in its prompt, as I wanted to see if I could generate slides for use at my church. It looks like any mention of "Bible" or religious words are considered "sexual, hate, violence, health topics"???

EDIT: When I took out the word "Bible", it worked. I tried "Genesis chapter 2" and it generated a decently good looking deck, which was impressive, and definitely usable. However, if I used "Bible Genesis chapter 2", it would reject the prompt.

Obvious miss, fixed.
So you corrected by ensuring to censor genesis as well?
Yeah, it's censored to a point of uselessness.

Health. Defense. Bible. History. Sex. Of course it's totally morally wrong to generate decks about all those issues.

Security seems to be another censored topic.
OP here. The purpose here of the "health" filter, which in its current state is fairly basic, is to to provide minimum protection for sensitive topics. For example, there are a larger number of health related requests and at the current state of quality/correctness of output I found it to be irresponsible to generate such content.
This may be an indication that it's at least useless, if not irresponsible, in other contexts too.