Negative prompt
A negative prompt is a separate list of things a model should exclude from its output, used mainly by image generation models.
Image models accept negative prompts as a distinct input rather than as instructions in the main prompt, and they work better that way — "no text, no watermark" inside a descriptor stack often has the opposite effect, because the model weights the words it sees.
Related terms
- Descriptor stack
- A descriptor stack is the comma-separated list of visual attributes that makes up an image prompt, ordered from subject through environment, composition, lighting, and style.
- Image prompt
- An image prompt is a description given to an image generation model specifying the subject, setting, composition, lighting, and style of the picture to produce.
More on techniques
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