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

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.

Today I received a notice for my annual renewal, and effectively there is now an opt out. The previous Adobe Suite plan now comes with a $10 per month increase for all these unusable and broken beta features. Now you can purchase a "standard plan" for slightly less which doesn't include all the attempts at upchraging for the value added features of AI credits that don't work anyway. 

YESS!!! And introduce into metadata tagging that makes it clear you don't want your own IP scraped. 

@AJordan12 

I agree with all of that.

I was genuinely worried about the future of authentic creativity when generative AI first came on the scene. I still am - but as far as Photoshop is concerned, it has settled nicely. Every tool that can optionally use generative AI, now has a simple option to completely disable it. 

And the obligate gen AI tools are easily avoided.

So I think the original question has been resolved. Yes, we can now tun it off completely (good riddance...;-) )

I believe with respect to noise reduction/sharpening, the concern is not traditional noise reduction, but rather tools that are being introduced for upscaling, restoring & "cleaning" images that do use generative models. Some of these features exist in photoshop already, some exist in other software, and it is easy to imagine adobe introducing their own versions of these techniques in the future. There are a host of issues with generative models - from ethical & legal concerns about the source of the training data to clients who require that AI has not been used. Artists want to be able to choose what tools & services to use and not use. Having a way to fully and confidently disable these features is important to many users. 

Noise reduction is not generative AI. And do you realize that many cameras have noise reduction built in? And every RAW processor makes choices about how to demosaic and process a file? If you use film, the choice of stock and developer can dramatically alter the look of a photo. Etc etc.

News organizations should [cursing removed] know that there is no exact and accurate rendering of a scene. And let's not get started on eyewitness reliability or editing decisions. EVERYTHING the news publishes is subject to error and manipulation and bias.