By skyforbes 
I tried to take a 2k screenshot and ask it to turn it into an oil-painting style image. That’s all. No deepfake, no political figure, no celebrity face swap… literally a screenshot from a basketball video game. And it gave me the “I can’t depict public figures” warning and refused to do anything.
Like… what’s the danger? It’s a cartoonish in-game render of a player. I’m not asking it to recreate the real person. I’m not even editing a photo of a real human — it’s pixels from a game.
I understand the need for guardrails, but this level of over-blocking makes the model feel frustrating and almost unusable for creative work. It feels like they just blanket-ban anything that might resemble a public figure, even when it’s clearly not harmful.
Anyone else running into stupid restrictions like this?