Negative prompt discipline
A short Avoid list for known failure modes — not a dump of every artifact you’ve ever seen.
When to use
Hands, text-in-image, logos, extra limbs, or brand-safety constraints.
How to apply
End with Avoid: 3–7 high-signal negatives tied to this brief.
Drop generic noise words that dilute the stack.
Glossary
- negative prompt
- An Avoid list of what must not appear — used as constraint hygiene, not a junk drawer.
- high-signal negatives
- 3–7 failure modes that matter for this brief (hands, text, logos), not every artifact ever seen.
- dilution
- When too many generic avoid-words weaken the model’s attention to the real constraints.