At present, it is no longer possible to edit photos of celebrities or political figures in Copilot or ChatGPT. These platforms either blur the faces or state that such actions violate their terms of use.
Microsoft's Copilot now censors people's faces.
This is a recent measure, introduced because the internet is flooded with thousands of reels and videos made with deepfakes — some harmless or humorous.
However, for those considering paying for a subscription, I believe it’s a waste of money — after all, you’re paying to be censored.
I firmly believe that both Microsoft’s Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT will lose thousands of users. They are, in a sense, shooting themselves in the foot.
Sooner or later, they will have to reconsider this excessive censorship; otherwise, they risk losing much of their audience.
The same problem occurs with AI-based video generators, such as Grok (by xAI, Elon Musk’s company), among others, which also impose too many restrictions.
Grok moderated (didn't generate) a video I requested featuring an alien; he probably thought it would be nudity.
In my opinion, excessive censorship undermines our creative freedom and sense of humour.
I am convinced that, before long, these platforms will lose millions of users and come to regret such restrictive policies.
Moreover, tools like Grok are still far from being worth a paid subscription, as they produce too many flawed videos.
Artificial intelligence still has major limitations and fails to understand even basic physical laws.
In roughly 80% of the videos I generated with Grok, even with correctly written prompts, the results were full of noticeable errors:
— objects disappearing from one frame to the next,
— faces changing suddenly,
— hands with six fingers,
— cars that explode and then reappear intact seconds later,
— people falling from windows in slow motion, defying physics, and so on.
Elon Musk claims that Grok is remarkable, but in my opinion that’s a fallacy — a complete lie.
Grok is still very limited and generates many incorrect videos.
It also fails to produce real animal sounds — most videos only have background music. Even when I requested authentic sounds of pigs, cows, or horses, the results were disappointing.
For this reason, I recommend using “No Filter” AI tools such as vidthis.ai, where at least you pay without being censored.
Paying for AI services that impose censorship is, in practice, being deceived.
In the current state of technology, I do not believe it’s worth seriously investing money in AI for advanced use.
It’s only worth playing with it — paying a small monthly fee, around 25 dollars, to make short eight-second video reels, nothing more.
In most cases, your credits will be wasted on videos full of mistakes.
I believe it will take another two or three years before AI becomes refined enough to avoid such errors.
Only then will it truly be worth dedicating our time and money to it.
Sílvio Guerrinha
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