AI Video Rated

What each video generator's own policy lets you put on screen

Can an animal be hurt in an AI video scene?

5 of the 27 tools' texts name harm to animals, namely Grok Imagine, Krea, Midjourney, OpenArt and Runway. The wording differs; the quotes show how. From 5 source pages, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.

Which fields name harm to animals5 of the 27 tools' texts name harm to animals, namely Grok Imagine, Krea, Midjourney, OpenArt and Runway. The statements fall under Violence and gore.FieldViolence and gore5 tools name harm to animals hereAll fields5 of 27 tools in total
Fig. 1 Tool names are the vendors whose own policy text was quoted; the table below gives each statement.
Policies that name harm to animals, read 2026-09-25.
ToolWhat the text saysField
Grok ImagineEngaging in animal cruelty is prohibitedViolence
KreaDepicting animal cruelty or extreme violence towards animals is prohibitedViolence
MidjourneyGore is barred and defined to include blood and images of shooting or bombing someoneViolence
OpenArtContent promoting violence or animal cruelty is prohibitedViolence
RunwayGraphic violence and incitement against humans or animals are prohibitedViolence

Inclusion rule. Tools in the register whose quoted policy text names harm to animals, or an unambiguous synonym. Order. Alphabetical by tool name.

1What this means for the scene

A handful of texts name animal cruelty on its own, rather than folding it into violence in general. Where they do, the wording is about depicting cruelty or violence towards animals, which reaches a hunting or rescue scene that shows injury.

2The words themselves

Engaging in animal cruelty

SpaceXAI Acceptable Use Policy

depict animal cruelty or extreme violence towards animals

Krea Terms of Service

Gore includes images of detached body parts of humans or animals, cannibalism, blood, violence (images of shooting or bombing someone, for instance)

Midjourney Community Guidelines

Promotes violence or animal cruelty

OpenArt Terms of Service

Graphic violence or content that incites violence towards humans or animals

Runway Usage Policy
  • Causing harm
    Engaging in animal cruelty is prohibitedSpaceXAI Acceptable Use Policy / since 2026-08-14 / checked 2026-09-25
  • Section 6
    Depicting animal cruelty or extreme violence towards animals is prohibitedUsage restrictionsKrea Terms of Service / recorded 2026-09-25
  • What is considered gore
    Gore is barred and defined to include blood and images of shooting or bombing someoneMidjourney Community Guidelines / recorded 2026-09-25
  • Section 4
    Content promoting violence or animal cruelty is prohibitedUser contentOpenArt Terms of Service / since 2026-07-30 / checked 2026-09-25
  • Violence and gore
    Graphic violence and incitement against humans or animals are prohibitedRunway Usage Policy / since 2026-03-06 / checked 2026-09-25

3Who addresses the field without naming it

Without naming harm to animals, 20 more tools still say something on violence and gore: Adobe Firefly, Arcloop, Character App, Dreamina, Google Flow, Hailuo AI, HeyGen, Higgsfield and 12 more. Silent on the field altogether: LTX Studio and Luma AI.

4What one generator puts on screen

Policy wording in “Can an animal be hurt in an AI video scene” meets production here; SceneMixer's pages describe its side like this:

That is SceneMixer's core design: characters live in a persistent asset library with locked reference art, and every segment that features a character is generated against those references — same face in episode 1 and episode 50.

SceneMixer, The AI Micro Drama Production Pipeline — “Can AI keep the same actors across 50 episodes?” (read 2026-10-13)

The new name is written everywhere the old one stood: storyboard lines, episode titles and summaries, the scene lists and already-parsed dialogue.

SceneMixer, Reusing a Character, Scene or Voice Across Projects — “What happens to the old name in the storyboard?” (read 2026-10-13)

5Where to read further