To back up the poster, Open AI loosened their rules. Earlier this week I did “dark wing duck as a knight” and it generated half and then said it couldn’t due to copyright. The same prompt now returns the image. Assume good faith instead of flying off and accusing people of being blind acolytes based on your personal idea of who they are.
You are seeing what you want to see because of your personal idea of who Sam Altman is.
I literally just asked 4o to “create an image of a barista in the Disney animation style” and it did it without any issues.