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How to disable/block Firefly and Generative AI In Photoshop

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September 13, 2023
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Are there any suggestions/solutions for those of us who wish to disable or block AI tools like Firefly or the generative AI within Photoshop? I understand I don't actually have to use tools I do not wish to use within Adobe programs, but I think it would also be nice for some of us with strong ethical opposition to generative AI to have an option for it to not consistently pop up in our feeds or have our work training AI models without permission (hence why I disabled the content analysis option for my account).

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stevenw6422659

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Today, I went through all the Adobe AI fixes to try to solve it. It took an hour, half of them didn’t work. There were three dots in the right side, just a bunch turning on and turning off in preferences. Then I opend Adobe Creative cloud and there was a photoshop update. That fixed it. My problem is why didn’t they just list that option first instead of sending all over the preference trying things that weren’t there.

So hopefully, you can just do the photoshop update to solve it.

Trevor.Dennis

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No one seems to have actually answered this, so for those people who lack the self control to ignore Generative functions inside Photoshop:

Go Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts

Select Application Menus

Scroll down to and select Edit

Find and turn off the eye icons for the functions you wish to disable.

Click OK

You can go further by going:

Edit > Toolbar

And dragging Object Selection, Remove Tool, and anything else you consider to be cheating.

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michaeloldman

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Yes Adobe - remove the AI garbage - ethical customers will never use it.
Adobe should be ashamed that they even went down the AI path.

Ultimately i imagine it will eventually lead to having to drop PS completely since we cannot be 100% certain the AI is not using our work to feed it Generative AI endeavors.

The fact that there is no single AI removal option speaks volumes about adobe ethics!

To show the true intention of Adobe to force AI on users is (and steel our work) is the fact that they have now removed version 22.2 which is the last version to be free of this AI curse.

The fact that this thread is now two years old is evidence that Adobe just DO NOT CARE what users think - shame on you Adobe!

D Fosse

Community Expert

@michaeloldman

Well, to be fair, 22.2 was not there because it was AI-free. It was there because it was the last version to support 3D functionality running on the now deprecated OpenGL platform. People still had 3D files, so it gave them time to migrate.

I can’t recall when Firefly became available in the Photoshop production version (non beta). It should be easy to look up.

D Fosse

Community Expert

I voted for it and I hope many more will. There should be a master switch in preferences to globally disable all Generative AI (Firefly) in one go.

As it is, it’s possible, and all tools that can optionally use Firefly have a rolldown in the options bar to disable it. But it’s much more effective to cut a tree at the base, rather than continually having to nip twigs and offshoots that pop up out of nowhere.

At the moment, 50% of the entire internet is AI-generated (and that’s what the models train on!). It’s time to form a resistance movement ;-)

jane-e

Community Expert

"you could raise a feature request in the Ideas section for the team to consider your use case."

@antonioa89540766

i've moved your post from Photoshop discussions to Photoshop ideas, so you do not need to repost. You are most definitely not alone in this request, and I suspect that your post will be moved to a primary thread.

Jane

@mj

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Hi,

This may be helpful.

https://helpx.adobe.com/manage-account/using/machine-learning-faq.html

hth

mj

iMSD

@mj

Community Expert

Hi,

You'll find this helpful.

https://helpx.adobe.com/manage-account/using/machine-learning-faq.html

hth

mj

iMSD

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Katherine36643493jlja

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I just downloaded the most recent version of Photoshop and i also dont want to use AI has anyone found a way of getting rid of it? Ive worked in Photoshop for many years and know how to do everything myself already i dont need help with anything. Can i remove it or should i just go back to the older version? Any advice would be grea thanks

davescm

Community Expert

There are many tools in Photoshop, not all need to be used. If you don't want to use the generative tools, i.e. those that generate new content in your image, don't use them. No need for special versions, special options, or reverting to older versions of the application.

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tonyh85361623

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Your response is fine for individual users. Not being able to restrict or disable AI at the Enterprise level is a big concern though - Telling hundreds of users to not use a tool that's available to them is a risk I don't want to deal with!

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duanea32090560

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CEO of Adobe fully drank the AI kool-aid so until the fad is over or whatever it'll be in the software whether we want it or not. It seems like a dumb thing to focus on considering every update has been making the software buggier and buggier. But then again, Adobe being the industry standard means we're all kinda handcuffed to this terrible rent-seeking corporation.