What causes prompt-only moderation to fail in AI apps?

Blind spots from images and multi-modal inputs — text checks miss visual poison.

How do you implement image moderation in AI generation?

Normalize inputs, inspect pre-credits, use structured scores, isolate providers.

Depends on risk tolerance — deliberate choice beats silent defaults.

Treating moderation as a quick text scan? You're begging for trouble. One dev's pivot from failure to a bulletproof pipeline reveals why.

theAIcatchup Apr 10, 2026 3 min read

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