AI Glossary / Negative prompt

⌨️ Prompts

A negative prompt is a field used in image generators for "what I don't want": you list elements that shouldn't appear in the image - for example distorted hands, text, watermarks, or a specific style. The model treats these terms as a direction to move away from. Not all tools have a separate negative field - in newer generators it's increasingly enough to write exclusions as a regular sentence in the main prompt. The principle remains the same: telling the model what to avoid can be just as effective as describing what it should create.