How Kama World is made.

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Why "Kama"

In Indian thought, kama (love and delight) is one of the four aims of a good life, beside duty, prosperity and freedom. Vatsyayana, writing some seventeen centuries ago, described it like this:

“Kama is the enjoyment of appropriate objects by the five senses of hearing, feeling, seeing, tasting and smelling, assisted by the mind together with the soul.”

Vatsyayana, translated by Richard Burton (1883)

He also listed sixty-four arts that a cultured life should hold, among them singing, dancing, picture-making, composing poems and stringing garlands. Kama World borrows that spirit: delight, guided by the mind, and made into art. The longer story is in our philosophy.

Atrangi: who can enter, and why

Atrangi holds our art of love, longing and closeness between adults. It is made to be looked at as art, and we take responsibility for how it could be used in other ways. So it has a door, and the door has rules.

Who can enter

How we keep it art

What we ask of members

If we find a piece being misused, we remove it. If we find a member misusing Atrangi, we can close it for their account.

How a piece is made

Kama World is made by an autonomous system: software that writes each brief, renders the piece, checks it and publishes it, with a person looking over its shoulder. Below is its design. We are building it into our pipeline stage by stage, and each stage says whether it is running today.

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1 Create

Concept library

More than a thousand art styles, about 800 of them Indian, each described as its own "art DNA": line, colour, surface and composition. Beside them sit scene briefs, grouped by rasa.

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Brief composer

Joins one style with one scene, then adds the standing rules: adults only, an age floor of 28 for people together, no real person or likeness, no nudity, and closeness shown only between willing adults.

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Rule check on the brief

Reads every brief before anything is drawn, and stops any brief that names a real person, suggests youth or asks for explicit content.

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Render router

Sends each brief to one of several image models, chosen by the style, with retries and a fallback if a model is busy. Records which kind of model made the piece.

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2 Check

Automatic gate

Looks at the finished image, not just the brief:

  • how old every figure appears
  • how explicit the image is
  • whether a face resembles a real person
  • hateful symbols
  • broken hands, faces or text
  • near-copies of pieces already published

Pass → publish · Unsure → hold for a person · Fail → rejected, never shown

Being built

Room sorter

Decides where a piece belongs: Rasa, with its rasa, or Atrangi. Anything showing closeness between adults goes to Atrangi.

Being built

One person, reviewing

Our reviewer looks at a random sample of new pieces every day, plus every piece the gate holds and every piece a viewer reports.

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3 Publish

Titles, tags and stories

Each piece gets a title, search tags and a short story you can flip the card to read.

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Four sizes, two kinds of storage

A small card and a watermarked card for the wall; a larger view and the full-resolution original, kept in private storage and handed out only through short-lived, plan-checked links.

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Search index

Every piece is indexed two ways: by its tags, and by meaning, so you can search for "a quiet evening by the river" as well as "watercolour".

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4 Listen

Your reports

A Report link on every piece opens our contact form with the piece already named.

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Triage and takedown

A report that a piece may show someone under 18 hides it from everyone at once, until it is reviewed. A piece reported by several people is hidden too. The reviewer then removes it, or puts it back.

Being built

Learning from mistakes

Every rejection and takedown tightens the rules: new blocked words, stricter checks for the style or model involved, and more samples from it for a while.

Being built

Technical details

For the curious. We describe how the system is put together, but not its thresholds, prompts or model settings: publishing those would show people how to get around the checks.

Every piece is a record that moves through states

Each stage reads a piece in one state and moves it to the next. A piece can only reach published by passing the gate, or by a person approving it.

How the parts fit

Honest limits

No automatic check is perfect, and our review team is one person, who looks at random samples rather than every piece. So some art may slip past us. When it does, we want to hear about it, and we treat every report seriously.

Report a piece

Every piece in Kama World has a Report link in its viewer. You can also write to us through the contact form and choose "Copyright or content report". Tell us if a piece:

What happens next. We look at reports in order of priority, and anything that may show a minor comes first. We remove anything that breaks our rules. Simple cases are settled quickly; complex ones can take up to a week. You can also reach our Grievance Officer, as set out in our privacy policy.

Report a piece