> The prompt ban was first spotted by Julia Rockwell, a clinical data analyst at Datafy Clinical, and her friend Madeline Keenen, a cell biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

No. No it wasn’t first spotted by them. Its well known if you use midjourney at all since it comes up pretty regularly. It’s also well understood why since we’ve seen so many language models start spitting out racist garbage. I’d you could easily make porn or gore from AI then quickly all image generator models would default to that.

It’s interesting to have an article letting those who don’t use it know about it, but it frames it like it’s unusual or overkill. And realistically it’s not going to make a scientifically accurate image of those things anyways at this point.