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Adobe InDesign 21.2 AI Alt Text Feature Generating Incorrect or NSFW Descriptions for Icons and Graphics

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February 27, 2026
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The new feature auto generates pornographic alt text in pictures it cannot seem to identify. It does seems to work ok on real photos but all complex icons have nude people and body parts described. It seems to me instead of giving a warning that it can’t identify a content it correlaties it to pornographic content.

I don’t know if there was no introduction/pop-up to this new feature or if I simply missed it, but auto generating nsfw text is not okay. Why is there no filter that stops it from doing so?

解決に役立った回答 Abhishek Rao

Hi everyone,

Thank you again for reporting and sharing examples of the incorrect and inappropriate Alt Text generation behavior. I completely understand how concerning this issue has been, especially when simple logos, icons, and graphics were being described with NSFW or unrelated content.

I wanted to share that the fix for this issue has now been implemented starting with InDesign version 21.4.0.40 onwards. You can access this build from the Pre-release section in the Creative Cloud Desktop App by going to Creative Cloud Desktop app > Apps > Pre-release and installing the latest available InDesign build. Once installed, please test the affected files and let us know how it works on your end.

If you do not currently have access to the Pre-release program, please use the links below to enroll and access the latest builds:

https://blog.developer.adobe.com/how-to-join-creative-cloud-prerelease-programs-ccecc10ae7d3

Adobe Prerelease

Please test the updated build and share your observations.

Looking forward to your update.

Abhishek

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Adobe Employee

Gen Alt Text is turned ON by default. Users are informed the first time an image is placed to turn it off with a clear CTA.

The default behavior will stay for now.

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InDesign team

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That’s a tone deaf reply. The issue isn’t whether there was a checkbox or a CTA once during onboarding. The issue is that AI-generated content is being automatically injected into professional production documents by default, including regulated, government, accessibility, legal, and corporate workflows, and it has already been shown generating NSFW and wildly inaccurate descriptions.

“Users were informed once” is not really an adequate defence when the feature can create reputational or compliance risks months later inside files people may never manually review line by line.

AI alt text as an assistive starting point? Fine. AI silently writing production content by default? That’s the part people are objecting to.

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@Abhishek Rao

Maybe this should be turned off by default. Most people don’t want content being automatically added to their documents without review or sign-off. If someone does want it, then make it an opt-in feature with options like: use AI descriptions for all images, selected images only, or approve case-by-case.

I genuinely don’t understand why Adobe would think automatically inserting generated content into production files is a good idea. In the real world, especially in regulated, accessibility, publishing, or corporate environments, every word often has to be reviewed and approved. AI-generated alt text can be useful as a starting point, but it should never silently become part of the document without the user explicitly accepting it.

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Hi @Eugene Tyson,

Thank you for sharing this thoughtful feedback. I will definitely raise your suggestion with the product team, especially around making the feature opt-in by default and providing approval-based workflows for generated content.

Additionally, it would be very helpful if you could create a UserVoice request for this suggestion and share the link here in the thread. That would allow other users with similar concerns to upvote it, helping with prioritization, visibility, and tracking from the product team side.

Thanks again for taking the time to provide such detailed feedback.

Abhishek

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Thank you for listening - I’ve posted the idea here

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/51277426-generative-ai-alt-text-and-other-ai-features

Elaine Wilson 2

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Oh, great, it's not just me. Here are my screenshots from content the AI generated yesterday. The client here is the US Government, so this was almost an EXTREME reputational risk. If this has been happening for months, I’m disgusted that it hasn't been fixed.

Participant

This was just caught by my team.
NSFW AI generated alt text.
This is a serious issue.

We need to go back through months of work to remove all AI Generated alt text.

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Hi @Francesco-HMH,

I’m really sorry for the experience you’ve had with the auto-generated Alt Text, especially seeing inappropriate or incorrect descriptions. I completely understand how concerning and disruptive this can be.

Please be assured that our product team is actively working on this issue, and a fix is already in progress. We’re prioritizing this, and you can expect improvements in an upcoming update soon.

Thank you for your patience.

Abhishek

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Community Manager

Hi everyone,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I understand how concerning it can be to see incorrect or inappropriate Alt Text generated for certain images. This behavior is currently being reviewed by the product team and they are actively working on addressing cases like this.

To help them validate the fix across different scenarios, it would be very helpful if you could share the images or icons where you’re seeing these descriptions generated. The team would like to review the exact assets that trigger this behavior so they can ensure the fix covers all impacted cases.

If the files are confidential, you’re welcome to share them with me via DM using any public cloud service such as Google Drive or Dropbox, and I’ll pass them along to the team for investigation.

Thanks again for reporting this and helping us improve the feature.

I’ll keep you posted here as soon as I have an update from the team.

Abhishek

Community Manager

解決！

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Hi everyone,

Thank you again for reporting and sharing examples of the incorrect and inappropriate Alt Text generation behavior. I completely understand how concerning this issue has been, especially when simple logos, icons, and graphics were being described with NSFW or unrelated content.

I wanted to share that the fix for this issue has now been implemented starting with InDesign version 21.4.0.40 onwards. You can access this build from the Pre-release section in the Creative Cloud Desktop App by going to Creative Cloud Desktop app > Apps > Pre-release and installing the latest available InDesign build. Once installed, please test the affected files and let us know how it works on your end.

If you do not currently have access to the Pre-release program, please use the links below to enroll and access the latest builds:

https://blog.developer.adobe.com/how-to-join-creative-cloud-prerelease-programs-ccecc10ae7d3

Adobe Prerelease

Please test the updated build and share your observations.

Looking forward to your update.

Abhishek

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Inspiring

To set the InDesign script preferences in a startup script you can use:

app.generalPreferences.autoGenerateAltText = false;

app.generalPreferences.addAITagToAltText = false;

to deactivate

or

app.generalPreferences.autoGenerateAltText = true;

app.generalPreferences.addAITagToAltText = true;

to activate

The order of these setting seems to matter

Thanks

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Here: »A black and white drawing of a man holding a large black object.«

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Hello

I’ve tried replicating the issue but not getting the same result. Your image shows up as alt text for a green image, but it’s not. Could you share the same file with the icon in place and also the icon.

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Hello there.

I see that this question has been asked a bit. This looks like something that the devs definitely need to address immediately. That said, this is a user-to-user forum where the devs do visit, but there is another site that they specifically take bug reports: https://indesign.uservoice.com/

If the answer wasn't in my post, perhaps it might be on my blog at colecandoo!

Community Expert

Community Expert

There is no substitute for an intelligent human to write alt descriptions. I recommend you turn this feature off by visiting Preferences > Generative AI and turning off both switches.

A better approach to this would be a dialog that shows you each pix and gives opportunity to write any missing alt descriptions. It should be aware of existing alt metadata. And it should give opportunity to choose for epub, or pdf, or both.

This should be part of an Accessible Preflight System (Adobe APS) that checks for many other things, too.

Mike Witherell