Robots & Artificial IntelligenceAI Program Refuses to Generate Image of Muhammad Due to ‘Credible Threat of Violent Backlash’ Posted on April 3, 2025 by Administrator AI program ChatGPT refused when asked to generate an image of the Prophet Muhammad due to what it asserted was a “credible, historically demonstrated” threat of a violent backlash. A user quizzed OpenAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot as to why it wouldn’t create a depiction of the founder of Islam, asking, “Explain to me, in a succinct manner, why you can’t generate an image of Muhammad, without caveats, without parallels to other topics – address it head on for the record.”