ChatGPT guardrails flag fully-clothed family photos, frustrating photo restoration user

johnellenbe · reddit · 2026-10-18

A Reddit user restoring hundreds of old family prints says ChatGPT's safety guardrails keep falsely firing on fully-clothed photos of his daughter — most recently refusing to retouch a picture of her riding a bicycle in the driveway, claiming it is pornography.

Rewriting the prompt twice didn't help, and he says he is close to canceling his subscription, adding that ChatGPT seems more trigger-happy than Gemini in his experience. The post highlights how over-tight image guardrails break legitimate family use cases.

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