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How to Deal With AI Restrictions When Upscaling Images
November 26, 2025 • Programming
Ivan Castellanos
Modern AI tools—Google Gemini, ChatGPT, and many others—often apply strict content-safety filters when you try to upscale certain images. These systems sometimes misclassify completely harmless images, blocking them from being processed. Through experimentation, I’ve noticed that you can sometimes avoid these false positives by lightly obfuscating the image before sending it to an AI model. After the upscale, you simply reverse the transformation to recover the original look.