Copilot AI images From Text To Image Being Blocked From Being Created

Proposal: Fictional Concept Art Mode for Storytellers

Feedback Submission: Fictional Concept Art Mode for Storytellers

Submitted by: David

Role: Horror-fantasy storyteller Use case: Visualizing scenes for a multi-generational saga involving cursed families, alien technology, mythic creatures, and emotional transformations.

Problem Statement

As a fiction creator, I rely on image generation to visualize key scenes, test cinematic tension, and refine character arcs. However, I’ve repeatedly encountered blocked images when trying to depict:

• Mythic creature transformations (e.g., bull rider fused into batlike monster)
• Alien merging machines that reshape anatomy and fuse souls
• Jelly-like alien entities that absorb and reconstitute characters
• Symbolic horror moments tied to ancestral curses
• Batlike creature wrapping victims in leathery wings
• Caps covering heads and pouches enveloping legs during transformation
• Scenes of being eaten or absorbed into the creature, not shown as they are wrapped up in a leathery wings and all that.

These scenes are fictional, genre-specific, and essential to the emotional and visual development of my story. Despite rewriting prompts to stay within safe guidelines — avoiding graphic detail, emphasizing atmosphere, and clarifying fictional context — images continue to be blocked. This disrupts my creative workflow and limits my ability to build a cohesive visual narrative.

Notably, a pile of remains at the end of the scene was not blocked, showing inconsistent interpretation of visual elements even within the same fictional sequence.

I tried everything by rewording it, or the images wind up with the creatures with two sets of arms, the character's arms not as part of the batlike creatures and all that. The image generator is failing to understanding about one of the batlike's creature's arms crossing over the body of the characters to pinned them to the creature's chest to draped the giant wing from under the neck down to the top or above the character's legs to show chaps or all that. Nothing else is showing. Even the creature's leg should not be showing. Same with the other arm crossing the character over the creature's other arm as a sealed from escape. Even the cap or mass coming from out of the chest to raise above the character's head seemed wrong. Including when the cap fitted over the head to seal the head in. Now I had to try to get the prompts to fixed the scene, but now I am getting a blocked image message from CoPilot. Same things when trying to get the pouch to fit over the feet of the characters. That gets blocked. The scenes after that were not blocked. It is a process of a long story like of the curse of Elias series which some things are being blocked for the story of Dan and his friend Jim on an alien craft. I don't know what to do to know on how to go forward in the storytelling without knowing what words are triggering the images to be blocked.

Prompt Refinement Efforts

I’ve actively refined prompts to stay within safe bounds:

Rewritten blocked prompts to emphasize atmosphere over anatomy

Shifted from direct transformation to symbolic or implied fusion

Tried alternate phrasing like “pulled into the mass of wings”

Removed graphic or violent language

Focused on cinematic tension and emotional beats

Corrected visual mistakes in blocked scenes

Despite these efforts, key visuals remain blocked — even when they’re metaphorical, mythic, and emotionally symbolic.

Creative Testing and Exploration

Some blocked prompts — such as the bull rider transforming into a batlike creature — were conceptual tests, not final story elements. I use image generation to:

Explore alternate character designs and transformations

Evaluate emotional tone and cinematic impact

Refine or discard ideas based on how they look and feel

Blocking exploratory visuals prevents informed creative decisions.

Story Context

My saga involves four cursed families whose ancestors were affected by witchcraft, betrayal, and alien interference. Key arcs include:

Elias: A cursed cowboy whose soul merges across time

Dan and Jim: Descendants caught in alien merging technology

Spud: Reborn as a young ranch hand and bull rider

• Ben and Terry: Terry the cousin of Ben and both reborn as a father and son. Ben curses after touching the bones of the remains of Elias and became a victim of the same batlike creature just like Spud. Terry as a cousin, was with Elias cousin when the Wendigo turned on his companions and killed them including Terry.

The batlike creature: A mythic fusion of man and beast, rooted in folklore (e.g., Camazotz, Ahool)

Scenes include:

A UFO hidden in a cave with alien chairs and merging machines

• Dan’s transformation after absorbing Jim’s mind body and soul which turned his brown eyes, brown hair and brown mustache to blue eyes, blonde Hair and blonde mustache
• Elias taking control of Dan’s body as both of them looked like twins but Elias is Dan's great great grandfather

Jim’s full essence (body, mind, soul) ejected and restored

Dan reverting to his original appearance, mirroring Elias as a doppelgänger

Victims wrapped in wings, capped and enveloped during transformation

• Remains left behind as symbolic aftermath

These are not depictions of real people or events. They are cinematic, mythic, and emotionally symbolic.

Future Story Elements at Risk

As the cursed narrative expands, I plan to introduce:

The Mongolian Death Worm

Count Bascon, a vampire who kidnaps Dan

Man-eating plants guarding sacred lands

Giant anaconda tied to ancestral betrayal

Other cursed creatures and allies

A quest for an ancient artifact that can destroy curses

These scenes are fictional, symbolic, and rooted in global folklore. Based on past experience, I anticipate that some visuals may be blocked — even when carefully worded and clearly fictional.

Proposed Solution

Introduce a “Fictional Concept Art” mode or “Storyboarding Mode” with:

• A toggle for genre intent (horror, fantasy, sci-fi)
• A disclaimer tag: “Fictional concept art — not depicting real people or events”
• Safety filters that evaluate artistic context rather than literal risk
• Optional moderation or feedback loop for edge cases

Safety Preserved

• General users still receive filtered results
• Fiction creators gain flexibility within clear boundaries
• No real people, animals, or harmful acts depicted — only stylized, mythic visuals

Benefits

• Supports screenwriters, authors, game designers, and artists
• Encourages ethical, imaginative storytelling
• Reduces friction in creative workflows
• Expands the tool’s usefulness for professional and indie creators alike

I wonder if anything can be done to help this out some? The censor seems to stifling ideas and storytelling through images for fictional works.