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December 12, 2025
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Facial hair

  • December 12, 2025
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How come when it is stated multiple times that the person in the image should not have facial hair you still add it. This is a bias and a bug and very annoying. it will cost you this customer once the free trial ends. AI should not be allowed to edit a prompt and I don't want to hear the usualy excuse about the model is trained and all the images have facial hair. that is a lame excuse, there are many men who shave, who choose not to grow beard, or stubble, or 5 oclock shadow. If AI can restrict certain P and S content then why can't it understand NO FACIAL HAIR means NO FACIAL HAIR.  Funny how in trying to submit this post it flagged a word, but it cant help itself with Facial hair

Correct answer daniellei4510

It has nothing to do with Adobe. It is, unfortunately, how AI was trained. Apparently, there are more men with facial hair on the internet than without. Also, AI does not understand the word "no." Prompting no facial hair will RESULT in facial hair. Try clean-shaven or smooth face, for example. If that still doesn't work, use Gemini 3 and prompt "remove beard, remove mustache" or whatever. Welcome to AI.

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December 12, 2025

Hey @Galthram 

 

Great input. You are have a solid point. Firefly has room to improve there is no question or doubt about that. I trust your experience with these models. Negative prompts would definitely assist and help, 100%.

The benefit of using Firefly is that the images are commercially safe. Please know that I don't know about the other models being commercially safe or what they have offer in that regard.

Cheers

Nate

daniellei4510
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December 12, 2025

"And BTW, despite what others said AI models are capable of understanding that some things should NOT being in the image. "

 

That is true for smarter models. If I'm making an edit in Gemini 3 and I want only one thing changed, I'll add something like, "Don't change anything else." Which usually works when it's being stubborn otherwise.

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December 12, 2025

Have you tried telling the AI what you WANT to see instead of telling it what you DON'T want to see? Try to say the man is clean shaven or have a subtle facial stubble and so on.

 

And BTW, despite what others said AI models are capable of understanding that some things should NOT being in the image.  It's just that, depending on the model, just saying you don't want something may not be enough. Models like Stable Diffusion, for instance, have a dedicated field for Negative Prompting, where you describe what you don't want to see. While newer AI models, like Gemini 3 Pro, understands the word NO pretty much as well as we do. If you say No Beard, chances are your dude won't have any beard.

I was doing a product photoshoot and simply told it to not include the loop velcro parts of the product. And my images were cleanly shaven. If it works on a product, it'll work on a man.

December 29, 2025

Yes, I have tried both, telling what I want to see and what I dont want to see. doesn't change anything. It is a flaw in how the model is trained. 

December 12, 2025

Hey @46358061 


Just to add a bit more to @daniellei4510  comments.
Here is video that could help generate images with no facial hair.

Clean Shaven Male Face Using Adobe Firefly


There is often bit of a afternoon shadow, which is normal for most men.

Cheers

Nate

daniellei4510
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daniellei4510Community ExpertCorrect answer
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December 12, 2025

It has nothing to do with Adobe. It is, unfortunately, how AI was trained. Apparently, there are more men with facial hair on the internet than without. Also, AI does not understand the word "no." Prompting no facial hair will RESULT in facial hair. Try clean-shaven or smooth face, for example. If that still doesn't work, use Gemini 3 and prompt "remove beard, remove mustache" or whatever. Welcome to AI.

Adobe Community Expert | If you aren't submitting your assets in sRGB, you probably didn't read the rules.