Blog • Trust & Safety
By Cemhan Biricik — February 2026
Content moderation in AI image generation is one of the hardest problems in the industry. Too strict and you kill creative expression. Too loose and your platform becomes a liability. At ZSky AI, I have built a moderation system that protects users and the platform while respecting creative freedom.
ZSky AI uses a multi-layer approach. Prompt-level filtering catches obvious violations before any compute is spent. Output-level classification reviews generated images for policy violations. User reporting adds a human feedback loop. No single layer is perfect, but together they catch the vast majority of problematic content.
Every AI platform must define its content policy. Our approach: allow artistic expression including mature themes, block content that is illegal, harmful, or depicts real people without consent. The line is not always obvious, and we err on the side of protecting people over protecting creative freedom when the two conflict.
Content moderation adds compute overhead. Every prompt is analyzed before generation. Every output is classified after generation. This adds latency and cost. But the alternative — no moderation — is not viable for any platform that wants to build trust with users, advertisers, and payment processors.
Automated systems handle 99% of moderation decisions. The remaining 1% — edge cases, appeals, novel attack patterns — requires human review. Scaling human review is expensive, but it is necessary for fairness and accuracy. Users who feel wrongly moderated need a real person to review their case.
Bad actors constantly probe for workarounds. Prompt injection, obfuscated terms, multi-step generation exploits. Moderation is not a problem you solve once — it is an ongoing battle. I update our filters regularly based on new patterns and share findings with the broader AI safety community when appropriate.
Multi-layer approach: prompt filtering, output classification, and user reporting. No single layer is perfect but together they catch the vast majority of policy violations.
No. ZSky AI allows artistic expression including mature themes. It blocks illegal content, deepfakes of real people, and harmful material. Clear policies with an appeal process for false positives.
Yes. It adds compute overhead per generation. But Cemhan Biricik considers it essential for building trust with users, payment processors, and the public.