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OpenAI uses automated safety filters on all image generation requests and outputs to detect and block content that violates its safety policies, including explicit sexual content and harmful depictions.
Details
Safety classifiers screen both image generation prompts and outputs in DALL-E 2, DALL-E 3, GPT Image (gpt-image-1), and ChatGPT's native image tools. OpenAI has published system cards describing these measures. C2PA digital watermarking is applied to images generated by DALL-E 3 to indicate AI origin. In March 2025, OpenAI updated safeguards around image generation while maintaining core prohibitions.
Products affected
DALL-E 2DALL-E 3ChatGPT image generationGPT ImageOpenAI API
Sources & Evidence
News Article
Company Disclosure
Cite this record
Trace Foundation. (2026). OpenAI: OpenAI uses automated safety filters on all image generation requests and outputs to detect and block content that violates its safety policies, including explicit sexual content and harmful depictions (data as of 2026-07-21) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/5fe4c092-e9dc-4884-bd74-d2aa2eaf6f43. Accessed October 13, 2026.
- Stable link
- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/5fe4c092-e9dc-4884-bd74-d2aa2eaf6f43
- Data as of
- July 21, 2026
- Last verified
- April 10, 2026
Other practices by OpenAI
Creative GenOpenAI offered Sora, an AI video generation tool that produced short video clips from text prompts or uploaded images, to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers starting December 2024; the product was discontinued in a phased shutdown, with the app and web closing on April 26, 2026 and the API scheduled to close on September 24, 2026. OpenAI announced the discontinuation on March 24, 2026, with reporting pointing to high compute costs and a strategic shift toward coding and enterprise products. A three-year licensing deal signed in December 2025 with The Walt Disney Company, under which Disney had committed a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, lapsed when the product shut down before the partnership terms were executed.OtherOpenAI deployed ChatGPT for US government and defense use through its OpenAI for Government platform, including a $200 million Pentagon contract and deployment on the DoD's GenAI.mil platform for approximately 3 million personnel.RecommendationOpenAI deployed contextual ads in ChatGPT starting February 9, 2026, showing sponsored content to free-tier users based on the topics of their current conversation.
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