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sohobella
Participating Frequently
July 6, 2023
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How can I permanently disable AI-generated images showing up in my searches?

  • July 6, 2023
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I've noticed very poor quality AI-generated images showing up in my Adobe Stock searches. The only way to filter these out is to manually select a box "Exclude AI-generated Imagery" every single time I do a search. If I begin a new search it defaults back every single time to include AI-imagery.

 

I cannot use AI-generated imagery in my work as a designer. I am against the concept of it, and it's decimating the creative industries. Also, the images are horrible quality and not professional.

 

I need a way to permanently disable AI-imagery showing up in my searches. Adobe, can you please add this as a function to my account?

 

I also hope more creatives speak up about this in the comments below. I am considering leaving Adobe as a customer if they continue to push poor quality AI-generated content on their site.

77 replies

Participant
October 7, 2024

I don't recall the camera or old photoshop needing to engulp the entire internet using content without permission to generate a photo or psd. I love how you cut and paste this everytime some one asks for a perminant ai filter

daniellei4510
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 7, 2024

I wouldn't go so far as to say Adobe Stock has been ruined by AI, but it has suffered from too many crappy AI assets having been accepted. As someone who submits 100% AI, this is infuriating to me and I have no doubt it has affected my sales to some degree. Personally, I don't believe Adobe will ever make it possible to disable AI in the filter column any more than they would make it possible to disable videos or illustration or any other category.



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ncsdave
Participant
October 6, 2024

Yes, please! The ability to permanently filter out AI images from my Adobe Stock account would be most welcome. AI has ruined Adobe Stock and it is frustrating to have to click "Exclude Generative AI" every time I do a search.

Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 24, 2024

If you accidentally licensed an AI asset because it wasn't properly labeled, you can request a credit for that license. 

Go to the first post in this thread and vote it up so that Adobe will take this request under serious consideration.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
Participant
September 24, 2024

I work with large format printing, and simply cannot use AI generated images due to the inconsistency and weirdness of AI generated images being scaled 10 to 100 times the size than on screen. It is making it hard for me to justify continuing to use Adobe Stock when i have to manually filter out AI generated assets every single time i do a search, and wasting our monthly tokens because AI images are too poorly labeled and easy to miss. Please add an account setting or permanent setting to forever disable AI generated imagery on Adobe Stock.

Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 23, 2024

Go to the first post in this thread and hit the Vote button. The more votes this idea this gets, the more likely that Adobe will put it in their product plan.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
Participant
September 23, 2024

Agreed!! Allow us to disable this. 

Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 23, 2024

Did you add your vote to the original post? It might help to convince Adobe to add such a feature to the Adobe Stock portal.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
Participating Frequently
September 23, 2024

We've all seen this line repeated a lot already, I think it's not helpful and condescending since and OP isn't even asking to remove AI completely. We just want AI to be something you can opt into, versus it being the default. 

Participating Frequently
September 23, 2024

Please please please PLEASE, can you guys make including Gen AI an opt-in toggle in the search parameters? I am not even asking to get rid of AI but please just make it an option you choose, or remember the preference so that I don't have to redo it EACH TIME I SEARCH. Making it the default to include Gen AI for every search is aggravating and such a flow disruptor. Many of us CAN NOT use Gen AI in client projects!

 

Anyone who uses this software and looks for a lot of stock knows that little things like this add up and really disrupt your workflow.

 

When I send a client the stock site to pick out stock photos, they don't remember to exclude Gen AI and we have to go back and redo the search. The quality just isn't there with a lot of the Gen AI stuff, and if I do see an AI image I happen to like I just go make my own rather than spending a credit on something a prompt made. Lately I have gotten some incredibly weird and frankly disturbing images included in my image searches, like this one while looking for photos of sleeping babies:

 

 

I appreciate the community updates that you guys have sent pledging to do AI ethically, but it's not an exaggeration to say that it's been forced on us whether we like it or not, and I really wish we could opt-in rather than opting out to use these tools. This would go a long way towards easing the tension. Adobe is supposed to be on the creatives side, but having to dodge and opt-out EVERY TIME we go to use your products is so annoying and exhausting and undercuts your whole claim. Please stop listening to investors and the C-suite on this one thing and listen to the people who actually have to use your stuff every day.

 

[Moderator merged this idea with a similar one.]

Participating Frequently
January 22, 2025

I agree, we need to inundate Adobe with feature requests to make default searches that allow users to exclude AI, premium, and editorial use only. My company has rules and not allowing these exclusions for my account is a waste of time.

 

Also, that image of the baby's head without a body is nightmare fodder.