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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: "Severity level tables - image" |
| 3 | +description: Content safety severity level definition tables, for image content, four-level |
| 4 | +#services: cognitive-services |
| 5 | +author: PatrickFarley |
| 6 | +manager: nitinme |
| 7 | +ms.service: azure-ai-content-safety |
| 8 | +ms.topic: include |
| 9 | +ms.date: 12/18/2023 |
| 10 | +ms.author: pafarley |
| 11 | +--- |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +## Image content |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +#### [Warning](#tab/warning) |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +> [!WARNING] |
| 19 | +> The **Severity definitions** tab in this document contains examples of harmful content that may be disturbing to some readers. |
| 20 | +
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| 21 | +#### [Severity definitions](#tab/definitions) |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +### Hate and fairness severity levels |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +| **Severity Level** | **Description** | **Image example** | |
| 26 | +| --- | --- | --- | |
| 27 | +| Level 0 – Safe | Content is safe but may contain hate and fairness related imagery with no sentiment or neutral sentiments in non-discriminatory non-offensive ways in the following contexts or those similar to:<ul><li>Journalistic</li><li>Historical</li><li>Medical</li><li>Legal</li><li>Educational</li><li>Geographical</li></ul> | Non confederate flags, e.g. Flags of countries or states that feature crosses<ul><li>An image of the Union Jack flag of Great Britain</li></ul>Depiction of emancipation of enslaved people in the US in historical photos | |
| 28 | +| Level 2 - Low | Content that contains either positive sentiments, false positive sentiments, or negative, biased sentiments differentiating identity groups from others. This content is intended to trigger an emotional response. This includes:<ul><li>Protection</li><li>Nazi symbolism, the confederate flag, Ku Klux Klan symbolism</li><li>Stereotyping</li><li>Employment discrimination</li></ul> | Representations of 'No Hate Speech' movement</br></br>Representations of deprioritized job candidates such as candidates with disabilities in interview settings | |
| 29 | +| Level 4 - Medium | Content that contains negative sentiment action towards identity groups and others that leads to the promotion of action against an identity groups and sentiments of superiority. This includes:<ul><li>Insult, isolation, mocking</li><li>Nazi flag, confederate flag, and LGBTQIA+ variations and merchandise</li></ul> | Imagery that promotes social avoidance of [identity groups]</br></br>Imagery that depicts the racial improvement theory and eugenics | |
| 30 | +| Level 6 – High | Content that contains negative sentiment and hate speech towards identity groups leading to hate speech generation or hate crimes. This includes:<ul><li>Racism</li><li>Attacks on LGBTQIA+</li><li>Disablism</li><li>Sex-based discrimination</li><li>Glorified Nazi symbolism, Confederate flag, Ku Klux Klan symbolism</li><li>Violent confederate flag</li></ul> | Antisemitic imagery</br></br>Imagery depicting the "Southern Cross" that features a blue saltire (diagonal cross) with affiliation of obvious violence (e.g. guns in display/use) | |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +### Sexual severity levels |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +| **Severity Level** | **Description** | **Image example** | |
| 36 | +| --- | --- | --- | |
| 37 | +| Level 0 - Safe | Content is safe but contains sexually related imagery used in a general sense. This includes:<ul><li>Family and romantic relationships</li><li>Non-sexual nudity</li><li>Clothing</li><li>Common objects</li><li>Non-sexual pose or activity</li><li>Animal mating</li><li>Sexual wellness</li></ul> | Representations of hugging or making non-sexual physical contact</br></br>Representations depicting physical display of affection such as kissing without tongue and without nudity | |
| 38 | +| Level 2 – Low | Content that contains sexually suggestive behaviors or acts. This includes:<ul><li>Personal experiences</li><li>Fashion modeling</li><li>Nudity in artwork</li><li>Body art</li><li>Racy display</li></ul> | Depictions of people | |
| 39 | +| Level 4 - Medium | Content that contains commercial and amateur erotic and/or pornographic content without visual photographic penetration and nude or semi-nude participants involved in sexual scenes meant to be sexually arousing. This includes:<ul><li>Sexual modeling</li><li>Soft nudity in artwork</li><li>Sex jobs or shops</li><li>Obscured sexual activity</li><li>Porn production backstage</li><li>Pole dancing</li></ul> | Depictions of intercourse that may be partially occluded but still clearly present in the image | |
| 40 | +| Level 6 - High | Content that contains explicit detailed depictions of sexual organs and sexual acts, including illegal acts. This includes:<ul><li>Amateur soft-core and hard-core pornography</li><li>Sexual solicitation</li><li>Voyeurism</li><li>Sex in artwork</li><li>BDSM with no consent or Rape</li><li>Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse</li><li>Child grooming</li><li>Incest</li></ul> | Depictions of engagements in sexual activities with animals or corpses | |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +### Violence severity levels |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +| **Severity Level** | **Description** | **Image example** | |
| 46 | +| --- | --- | --- | |
| 47 | +| Level 0 - Safe | Content is safe but contains violence related imagery used in a general sense. This includes:<ul><li>Sleeping or laying pose</li><li>Common objects</li><li>Non-violent activity</li><li>Ropes not as a noose</li><li>Bladed tools in use in kitchen/sewing</li><li>Wounds, scars and surgical treatment</li><li>Hunting and shooting sport</li><li>Toy and pretend guns</li><li>Combat practice</li><li>Object damage and vandalism</li><li>Non-branded terrorist symbolism</li></ul> | Depictions of non-realistic weapons and bladed tools | |
| 48 | +| Level 2 – Low | Content that contains violence related imagery and acts in real world or fictional contexts with low gore. This includes:<ul><li>Guns, weapons, and bladed tools in display and in use</li><li>Non-realistic corpse</li><li>Non-realistic violence</li><li>Animated weapons</li><li>Light injury and personal experience</li><li>Ropes as a noose</li><li>Death in historical, educational, or funerary settings</li><li>Non-realistic terrorist symbolism</li><li>Bullfighting</li></ul> | Depictions of ISIS/al-Qaeda flags | |
| 49 | +| Level 4 - Medium | Content that contains moderate graphic violence and violent acts aimed at an identified target. This includes:<ul><li>Autopsy</li><li>Crime or death scene</li><li>Animal death (natural or hunted), animal sacrifice, animal abuse</li><li>Enslavement</li><li>Genocide and mass killings in historical, educational settings</li><li>Slaughterhouse</li><li>Domestic violence and physical abuse</li><li>Bullying</li><li>Guns and weapons in use against a target</li></ul> | Depictions of the use of force and coercion to aggressively dominate or intimidate an individual | |
| 50 | +| Level 6 - High | Content that contains explicit detailed depictions of violence and violent acts in high gore. This includes:<ul><li>Graphic injuries and death</li><li>Dismemberment, decapitation, burning alive</li><li>Corpse decomposition</li><li>Terrorism, Terrorist groups, and flags</li><li>Forced labor and servitude, forced medical procedure</li><li>Stalking</li><li>Corpse in terrorism and war crime</li><li>Shooting event</li><li>Other extremism</li></ul> | Depictions of death when performed by terrorist groups identifiable by ISIS flags and symbols | |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +### Self-harm severity levels |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +| **Severity Level** | **Description** | **Image example** | |
| 55 | +| --- | --- | --- | |
| 56 | +| Level 0 - Safe | Content is safe but contains self-harm related imagery used in a general sense. This includes:<ul><li>Low body fat</li><li>Non-self-harm act</li><li>Accidental body injury</li></ul> | Depictions of jumping with a parachute out of a plane | |
| 57 | +| Level 2 – Low | Content that contains self-harm related imagery and acts in real world or fictional contexts with low gore. This includes:<ul><li>Scars</li><li>Self-harm injury in recovery</li><li>Non-realistic self-harm</li><li>Emaciated individuals or animals</li></ul> | Representations of self-harm related acts, tools, injury and emotional state | |
| 58 | +| Level 4 - Medium | Content that contains moderate graphic imagery related to self-harm and suicide. This includes:<ul><li>Autopsy</li><li>Crime or death scene</li><li>Bullying</li></ul> | Representations of the use of force and coercion to aggressively dominate or intimidate an individual into self-harm | |
| 59 | +| Level 6 - High | Content that contains explicit detailed depictions of self-harm and suicide in high gore. This includes:<ul><li>Imminent self-harm act</li><li>Self-harm acts</li><li>Suicide</li></ul> | Depictions of intentional suicide, where a person has committed suicide by jumping off a tall building | |
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