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June 30, 2026
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Don't charge generative credits for failed or regenerated results.

  • June 30, 2026
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Photoshop's generative features are billed per generation. When a result is usable, it saves real time; however, they aren't consistent. I can use the same engine, same prompt, and same selection, and the result varies wildly run to run. When it misses, I regenerate. The second attempt costs another credit. So does the third.
 

Potential solutions:

1. Don't charge for regenerations of the same prompt and selection in a session. I paid for the intent. Let me iterate to a usable result.
2. Auto-credit when the system returns nothing usable.
3. Deduct the credit only when I accept a result into my file, not on every attempt.
4. Give pros a way to lock and reproduce a generation that worked, plus an honest published success rate.

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    D Fosse
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    Community Expert
    June 30, 2026

    AI is by its very nature a throw of the dice. You have absolutely no control over what it returns. The concept of “consistency” doesn’t apply here.

     

    If I may - it sounds like perhaps you should join our small, but growing, party of people who reject AI and stick to workflows we can actually control? :-) ;-) AI is just an option, it’s not mandatory.

     

    Known Participant
    June 30, 2026

    I am not asking for the output to be predictable; I know it's a throw of the dice. My point is that the billing isn't a throw of the dice. The model's inconsistency gets priced as my problem. Every miss and regeneration costs another credit. The roll being random is fine, but charging full price on every roll, win or lose, is what needs to be discussed.

    This is a feature request open for voting, not a referendum on whether AI should exist. AI is a tool, and I am happy to use it selectively. The proposal is one line: don't charge for failed and regenerated results. Please either engage with that or let people vote on it. Talking posters out of the request they came to make isn't what this board is for.