Adobe should make opt-out to all of gen ai feature for users.

The problem I see with AI features is not the fact that some users don’t want them. But also that some clients don’t want their creatives to use AI (or even to have it somewhere in the app). It becomes a challenge when you use a screen tracker that takes screenshots from time to time. For example, all Upwork hourly contracts are tracked like this. How to avoid AI pop-ups and “proposals” from the menu and CTB? I want the features to be there, I use them in my workflow, but I need some control of their visibility/availability for some particular situations.

The worst part of this is that the AI is truly terrible, at first glance it looks OK but the more you look at the detail the more it resembles some bad jpeg artefact. Seasoned users of photoshop take great care and skill in their manipulation of images. The old phrase garbage in garbage out should be repurposed to AI in garbage out. We also don’t want endless pop ups appearing on the screen asking if we want to use this crap. Just give an option for a non AI version. 

I agree. AI is becoming intrusive, not in photoshop that I’ve noticed, but in other softwares on differing subjects. WE should have a cut off key. We are afterall the owners of such software by right of purchase.  You dont buy car and let the dealer maintain ownership!

The Content Authenticity Initiative is all about that. Adobe has been out in front on this subject from the git-go. Many of us signed up for CAI two years ago as soon as it went live.
https://www.contentauthenticity.org/
https://adobe.design/stories/process/behind-the-design-adobe-content-authenticity-app

Are you aware that we can already remove features from Photoshop Menus?

You can save your Custom Menus and Custom Toolbar (with Ai Tools removed via Edit Toolbar) to a Custom Workspace.

Then you can have a crafty look round to make sure no one is looking, and if the coast is clear, switch to the Essentials workspace, make your life easier by using an Ai tool, and switch back to your custom workspace.

It almost worked for this guy back in 2016, and that was when Photoshop Ai was still in its infancy.

I wish there was a way to protect an artist’s work, but there is no stopping AI

Dead internet theory, it's not theory anymore 😂

Aside from all the doom and gloom - which I easily subscribe to - there's a corner of my mind that just wants to sit back and watch this unfold: what happens as AI starts cannibalizing on itself? Easily 50% of all internet content is now AI-generated. Will it all eventually collapse into a singularity, where all AI essentially generates the same image? 

There is no way to stop AI companies from using your work. None. If its online, it can be grabbed. maybe... MAYBE there will be a legal framework, but in the US for example, that doesn't seem even remotely likely given the state of politics today.

Completely agree with this - many of us creatives want nothing to do with AI. It should be made easier not just to opt out from using AI tools but also to protect our work from AI scraping. For instance native functionality that protects your work at a pixel level from scraping. If the technology exists to scrape, the tech exists or should exist to protect from it, and audit and identify work that has been stolen.