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> Likewise, how difficult is it to just use descriptive tools to describe Mario-like images [1] and then remove these results from anyone prompting for "video game plumber"?

This approaches impossibility at scale.

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Trademarks already include text descriptions and images of the item being trademarked. This is already in the USPTO database.

Using generic text will end poorly. I predict a future where 99 of 100 requests result in Photoshop AI saying "I'm sorry, I can't do that". Google for silly trademarks. Facebook trademarked the word "Home". Star wars trademarked breathing under a mask.

Exactly. An enormous database of generic, unmoderated text descriptions. Basically any question you ask will be “covered” by some trademark description somewhere.

Not to mention that the cost and scale of checking every query against that entire database is … not approachable.

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