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

Image manipulation and editing has been going on since the beginning of photography.

You can remove stuff just using Clone Tool i.e. people/object from  some press photos (quite famous one with dead birds on top of a bus stop), hide damage on items sold online, alter model skin and body using Liquify, including changing face expressions. You can comp images together and blend it perfectly using masks and adjustment layers to give them totally different meaning.

Worth noting that Adobe generative models have been trained on licensed images and its not something that every AI company can say!

Please explain what "unethical ways" you are speaking about? 

Remove Tool is the only tool where it might or might not use AI when set to Auto and thats why there is a settings for it. Generate Image or Generative Fill are AI only so if you dont want to use them - just dont. Its not compulsory. Regardless of you opting out of AI or not, you are still using application which supports all sorts of unethical ways of altering images so its more about how you use it and whats the intent

You do have an option of sorts. in the top toolbar, there is an Mode option to switch it off (3 in fact) - Auto (may be used), Generative AI on, or Generative AI Off.

By @AGDunbar 

jane-e is correct. That is not a “top toolbar” it’s what’s called the (tool) options bar (Window > Options), which presents options only for the current tool, not the entire application. So any options you see in the options are tool-specific (they change depending on what tool you selected), in this case options for the Remove tool only. For example, changing the Remove tool’s Mode menu will not disable Generate Image or generative fill. That’s why the Mode menu is definitely not the application-wide “master switch” for generative AI that is being requested here. 

@AGDunbar wrote:

"You do have an option of sorts. in the top toolbar, there is an Mode option to switch it off (3 in fact)  - Auto (may be used), Generative AI on, or Generative AI Off."

If you are referring to the post and image from @D Fosse , note that his screenshot is for the Remove tool, not for all Generative AI.

Jane

You do have an option of sorts. in the top toolbar, there is an Mode option to switch it off (3 in fact)  - Auto (may be used), Generative AI on, or Generative AI Off.

I have had this request from fellow team members. Would there be a way to disable Gen-AI tools so they are not enticed to use them, and also so they can still use their software when working offline. 

@ExUSA 

AI per se is not a problem. Generative AI - i.e. Firely - is a problem. Noise reduction is fine. Generating new content is not fine. That's where you're crossing the line.

It is in fact extremely easy to avoid crossing that line: just don't accept the terms and conditions for Firefly. If you're picking up a tool that uses Firefly, you need to accept the terms before you can use it.

I have never accepted the terms, and for those tools that can go both ways, like the Remove tool, there will be a rolldown in the options bar:

Once that is set, you won't be bothered again.

Adobe does a poor job of labeling what is AI and how it is used in each tool, so its not just that easy. I'd like to see granular controls (for example, AI noise reduction in Lightroom is ok, but not AI generative expand.)