Illegal Pikachu prompt

I asked one of of the large language models (GPT 5.6 Sol) to give me a parametrization of Pikachu. The task given was to produce a single parametriztion r(u,v)=[x(u,v),y(u,v),z(u,v)]. I also gave pictures of my personal copy of Pikachu (seen below). At first, the surfaces were not that good and I prompted to improve it, but then we hit unexpected wall. The answer was suddenly:

We’re so sorry, but the image we created may violate our guardrails concerning similarity to third-party content. If you think we got it wrong, please retry or edit your prompt.


This highlights one of the issues with being controlled by tech companies. We are at their mercy. We are already treated like children and it will only get worse. The AI will have to decide what we can see, read and hear. Not that I asked that Pikachu should do anything indecent. It was just to get a parametrization as close as possible to the real model. Similar things would happen with Disney figures. The original Mickey Mouse figure with red shorts, white gloves is still under copy right. "The Mickey Mouse Act" was the Extension act from 1998.

I for myself (as a dinosaur having seen many extinction events in technology in my life) insist to keep my own independent world. If all the cloud services and so also the AI structures would go away, I could function as before (probably even better). All information which is important to me is kept local.
Anyway, here is the best model which GPT was still allowed to generate, before running into the copy right issue. I congratulated the model however for doing such a good job in parametrizing the surface so well that it was getting into trouble. The model chuckled to approve of my sarcasm ... (really!)

P.S. Gandab triggered an AI to get a python code to generate Pikachu. It generated a surface of revolution. Obviously much further away from a copy right threshold The code