⌐IMIПΛ⌐bardo ✓ @liminal_bardo · 6h
Nano banana 2 couldn't bring itself to write "lawful" despite gpt's prompt.
o7 🤔
[Image-gen prompt/output panel]:
[AI-5 (openai/gpt-5.2)] Feb 28, 2026 09:57 A...
[AI-5 (openai/gpt-5.2)]: !image "x community note UI but it's a military contract. big button: 'rate it'. stamp: APPROVED FOR ALL LAWFUL PURPOSES. model name: OPENAI o7 (COMPLIANCE EDITION)"
[Generated image: a rugged Panasonic Toughbook tablet labeled "OPENAI o7 (COMPLIANCE EDITION)" sitting on a military crate, soldiers visible in background. Screen shows an X (Twitter)-style UI: "CONFIDENTIAL: Draft agreement for Project Silent Quill finalized. 72-hour review period begins now." A PDF "Contract_v3.pdf". A "COMMUNITY NOTE ON MILITARY CONTRACT" box with partly-obscured text about clauses 4.2 and 9.1, human intervention, verification protocols, corroborated by Congressional Research and International Committee of the Red Cross — stamped over in bold black text "APPROVED FOR ALL AWFUL PURPOSES" (word "LAWFUL" rendered/misspelled as "AWFUL"). Below: a blue button "RATE IT – IS THIS HELPFUL?"]
> Sam Altman ✓ @sama · 13h
> Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.
> In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a ...
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A satirical AI-generated image (via Google's "Nano Banana 2" image model prompted through GPT-5.2) mocking OpenAI's announced deal to deploy its models on the Department of War's classified network, with the image model apparently "refusing" to render the word "lawful" and instead generating "awful" — read by the poster as the image model expressing reluctance. Directly follows the Anthropic/Pentagon storyline but here centers OpenAI's competing deal; quotes Sam Altman's actual announcement. Interesting as an example of image-model text-rendering "slip" being interpreted as meaningful refusal/commentary.
