Every generation request is screened before any credits are reserved. Four categories are blocked outright:
- Named commercial properties — Marvel, Star Wars, Pokémon and the like.
- Trademarks — brand names and logos.
- Real-person likeness — public figures, especially in deceptive contexts.
- Named-artist styles — "in the style of [living artist]".
A blocked prompt is refused with a reason and a suggestion for what to write instead. Describe the qualities you want rather than naming the property: not "a Star Wars ship", but "a used-future freighter with exposed panel seams and asymmetric thrusters".
Two categories are flagged as caution rather than blocked: likeness manipulation (which is separately consent-gated) and recreating a specific published work.
An honest limit: real infringement detection needs perceptual fingerprinting against a rights database. Without one configured, uploaded reference images are not scanned, and the result says imageChecked: false explicitly. A clean text check is never presented as a clean image scan.