P: Distraction Removal: People (CR & LrClassic)

I've tried the new removal of distracting people tool with mixed success.  In several images, it has correctly identified humans.  Rather than deleting them, it has replaced them with other "people".   

I tried it in LR Classic on Medium size lossless compressed RAW files from my Sony A7R V.

People Removal looked like it was going to be really good because it instantly selected all the people. However it is useless. After about a minute of processing it came upe with the message "The service is not responding. Please check your internet and try again."

My internet has no problem streaming HD. I tried several photos several times each with the same result. I tried it on another photo with no people. It selected and deleted a chimney. I went back to one with people and deleted more and more groups of people from the selection but got the same error message each time. Finally when I was down to one group of four people it did something: it deleted two of the people, removed the head of the third and changed the head and torso of the fourth to a different person connected to the original arm!

Does Adobe just put stuff out without testing it? I'll have to revert to the manual AI removal function, which takes trial and error to get a good result.

The people removal tool is still in its nascent stage . When selected, it could very well identify multiple people in an image , but when removal was done, it made a mess . The surrounding structures either got merged or there were artifacts left behind. It needs a re-work by Adobe Team. Its a good and necessary concept, but still in a very very early stage with unpleasant results. hence removing people using other tools in Ps is tedious but with much better outcome 

bonjour , la suppression des personnes marchent très bien. 

Merci d' ajouter un bouton pour ajouter des personnes en plus à supprimer ( celles qui ne sont pas détectées spntanément  par le logiciel)

merci d'avance

It's proving helpful for me so far, editing event photography. But I just used it on an image that merely beheaded a person, leaving the rest of the body. I wish there were options to refine or define who is distracting - or where their whole body is - if the initial removal doesn't quite work. I'm going back and using the removal AI tool outside the distracting people feature in the meantime.

Distraction Removal creates NEW DISTRACTIONS! WTF

The first attempt was awsome!

How do I reduce the masked area surrounding a person if I think the area covered by the mask is too large?