negative prompt
/ˈneɡətɪv ˈprɒmpt/
an instruction telling an image model what to leave out
negative prompt in a sentence
“Adding `text, watermark, extra fingers` to the negative prompt cleaned up the render.”
Origin of negative prompt
Latin negare to deny + promptus ready
Related Words
self-consistency
sampling several reasoning paths and taking the majority answer
tree-of-thought
exploring branching reasoning paths and backtracking from dead ends
jailbreak
a prompt crafted to trick a model into ignoring its safety rules
steerability
how reliably a model's behavior can be directed by instructions
context engineering
curating everything a model sees — instructions, examples, retrieved facts — not just the final question
style transfer
re-rendering content in a different artistic or verbal style while keeping its substance