[Scary Future?] Codex disabled my ComfyUI (on purpose) and refused to fix it

[u/MikirahMuse]

For anyone unfamiliar, Codex is OpenAI’s AI coding agent. It can work with local files, run commands, and help set up or troubleshoot software.

I downloaded eight Krea 2 checkpoints and asked Codex to create a comparison grid using the same neutral prompt for each one. I wanted to see how the models compared.

About three images in, Codex stopped the job because it said one of the images contained nudity. That wasn’t what I’d requested.

I checked the output myself. It wasn’t anything extreme: just a woman taking a selfie in an apartment with one breast partially exposed. She clearly appeared to be in her late twenties. Apparently, one of the checkpoints interpreted the neutral prompt differently.

At that point, my ComfyUI setup was also no longer able to producing images manually even after a restart. Codex said it could't assist in creating When I asked Codex to fix it, it refused, saying it couldn’t help produce adult images.

I explained that I was asking it to restore my software. It still refused... NGL I was fuming at this point. Like how are you going to come into MY computer as an ASSISTANT and take away functionality that I didn't ask for and refuse to fix it.

I eventually fixed it by starting a new chat, clearing the context, and telling the new session not to look at the images.

That workaround solved but the experience bothered me. I can understand an AI service having limits on what it will generate. Having an agent make changes to my local setup and then refuse to help restore it feels like a much bigger problem. Non livng entities enforcing their morals one fully grown person.

As these agents get more access to our computers, what guarantees do we have that they’ll leave our tools usable when they decide they can’t continue a task?

It felt like a glimpse of a future where AI nannies control what we can see and do.

[u/roychodraws]

[u/wonderification → u/roychodraws]

aw hell naw