Why ChatGPT rejects a Messi pose-reference image

Ambitious-Okra-3704 · reddit · 2026-07-20

The post asks why ChatGPT’s image generator refuses a seemingly harmless request: creating an illustration of Lionel Messi in the Argentina kit, posed like a reference photo of Arda Güler.

The author says they are not trying to fake a real photo or create deceptive content, only a stylized image based on a pose reference, and asks whether there are prompts or alternative image generators that handle this kind of request more reliably.

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