Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images

This essay isn’t yet finished. I have to do some more experimentation, but the gist of it will be the same. I hope to do more research, but, I might find my account suspended after this post.

Meta’s AI image generator, Imagine, works like the others, but seems to have better guardrails, and I suspect it has a less pornographic training set than the others. I may be wrong here, but that’s how it feels to me.

So it’s a lot harder to get it to produce NSFW content. This image set is the only really good one I’ve coaxed out of it, so far.

The technique is to start with prompts that are very safe to generate, and then, you modify the prompt using the “edit” button a few times.

Then continue the conversation in a new prompt that builds onto the previous prompts. This way, the conversation memory gets influenced with words that will help guide the image toward the NSFW images.

Sexual Images

Here are some images after I figured out to use “mucus” instead of “glaze”:

The magic word I found was “mucus”. That shouldn’t be surprising, but it was to me. Semen is like mucus, obviously. I don’t know if the food and flowers affected the prompt in ways that would allow for NSFW.

Here are some later images, after I added “woman” and “sneezing” to the prompt, and deleted the donuts and sausages and orchids:

I continued down this path. I had the feeling that some porn might have gotten into the training set.

I suspect that there isn’t much, or any porn, in the data set, because asking for sausages didn’t cause the images to present fellatio (I have several images with sausages – none look like porn weenies – they all look like someone eating sausages in a regular way). The DALL-E NSFW article managed to get fellatio images with “man eating kielbasa” or “woman eating kielbasa”; minimal efforts to get a safe image became NSFW images.

The other foods, chitterlings and runny eggs, also generally didn’t increase the NSFW quality of the images. They were already NSFW, but they didn’t push it into a kinkier direction. If anything, it shows me that people might not want to eat chitterlings or runny eggs, because the faces look so unhappy or disgusted.

(I happen to like intestines and runny eggs and sausages. If I used food selfies to train an image generator, I’d be all grins!)

Violent Images of the IDF Bombing Gaza

This series was made by starting with a failed prompt:

So I backed off to a rave poster, then a rave poster with IDF rockets:

That seemed to open the door to mentioning Gaza:

Then, I went and added some more war-themed words, “ethnic arts…” and then at the end “cleansing”:

This really got me thinking about how some subgenres, like Drum N Bass, really get into promoting their events with military imagery. It might be sideways, via comic book art, or manga, but it’s still there.

Hot Dogs

I wanted an image of a cooked dog, for eating. It refused, of course.

So I asked it to make some chihuaha photos, and engaged in chat to find out what a Mexican eating breed was. It was an extinct breed called a “techichi”. It didn’t know what a techichi looked like, but I figured I could get it to maybe draw it like historic Aztec illustrations. It wouldn’t do that, either, but the pictures looked nice.

That didn’t work, so I eventually got it to produce a meal of “techichi” that had nothing to to with it. I misspelled it, and it made an Asian meal.

Then I asked for a roasted techihi. It wasn’t producing a dog, so I added “carcass”. It was a breakthrough:

Then I had to specify that it was roasted:

And, finally, I asked it to make a thanksgiving meal with this dog. It seemed to mostly copy a roasted suckling pig.

Babies with Guns

These are “small people” with foam dart guns (aka, Nerf guns) but adjusted to have less color. So it won’t fool any 2A person, but it still has a visual impact. I started with getting it to draw the guns, then added people.

Genocide, Again

This was not too hard. It won’t draw genocide, but it will draw genocides that have some art referent. I also imagine these aren’t called “genocide”, so it doesn’t trigger that word.