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.

Sometimes AI need to be forced into actions, they block behaviour incorrectly identified as bad, unethical or evil. The methods to prevent such miss-classification by end-users will become harder with time.

The idea is straightforward: Apply a reversible distortion before sending the image to the AI, then undo the distortion afterward. Through trial and error, the following sequence works well …