P: Distraction Removal: People (CR & LrClassic)

Running Lightroom Classic on Windows, I used the remove tool to select a group of people and when I clicked remove it began the process then stopped and generated a message that something went wrong, generative remove failed, try again. I retried a few times with same results.

I next tried the people option and two groups of people were selected each with its own pin. The instructions say to exclude an area from selection to click on its pin and use the Delete key. I clicked on the pin for one group and pressed the Delete key and both groups were deselected. I retried a few times with the same result. I then noticed the message that appeared in the panel that said "selected" along with a garbage can icon. When I clicked on the icon only the one group which pin I had clicked was deselected as desired. The instruction should be changed to indicate that using the Delete key will deselect all groups and to deselect only a specified group you should click its pin and click on the garbage can icon.

Just to confirm what happened before submitting this, I used the remove tool to select the same group of people that originally generated the failure message - this time it worked. There is something inconsistent happening there.

I had it remove someone from a reflection in a mirrored cabinet with glass shelves. It detected the person and did well, but grabbed the edges of the cabinet. I wish there was a way to remove/edit parts of the mask since it changed the wood trim on the furniture, which is no longer accurate to the product being sold.

The AI seems to think that this is a distracting person!  I have tried the distraction removal tool on a number of photos. Sometimes it did not recognise a distracting person at all. I think it is more useful to include an option for us to highlight/mask an area for the ai to concentrate on finding the distraction.

Why bother attempting this in LrC?  The results are unacceptable and PS is still required.  If it was working, then great, one step eliminated - but not yet.

I havae tried to use this so many times. Sometimes it picks one and removes it. BUT the rest of the time it adds a weird person instead. Why? and when there are multiple people I want to remove, I can't pick anyone else. So I have to use the other tools. It is totally random if it is going to work. Mostly doesn't. 

Worked well for one photo.  Only had one person in a landscape.

I would love to be able to adjust the mask rather than just getting the variations.  That way, when the tool alters something integral to the photo, there is an option to erase that part of the mask.

So far, superb, accurate and fast. Pure Adobe...