[aenvoker]

In this case, that’s not how it went down.

There was a lot of hand-wringing about “We want to give users as much freedom as possible, but…” the team are a bunch of overly-nice people who don’t want to work on certain things. And, we want an open, welcoming community for families and all sorts of people. Not just the horny, edgy dudes who will certainly swarm into a service like this (see Unstable Diffusion).

For example: early on some users explored what we term “ultra-gore”. Really out there stuff. And, I’m a shock cinema fan. And, the AI was a bit too good at it. Really bit your brain and made a lasting impression. Seeing their hard work result in stuff like that is very discouraging. So, the team decided they don’t want that on the service they were providing.

Filters and bans came after.