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April 11, 2025
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Photoshop crediting the art I make myself to AI and cannot turn it off

  • April 11, 2025
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Hi everyone, I really need help with something that is going to impact my income and small biz. I create all of my artwork myself in Photoshop. Fully hand-drawn using my mouse pad and brushes and shapes I've created myself. It literally takes me weeks to create an art piece.  I don’t use AI to generate my art. The only time AI has been involved is when I’ve used an AI-generated image as a reference, the same way you might use a stock photo or sketch. 

Now, Photoshop is automatically crediting all the files I save as AI generated, even though every part of the artwork is created by me. I believe it might be because a reference image was opened at some stage, but that shouldn’t mean the art is no longer mine.

This is a massive problem for me. I sell my artwork, and if Photoshop is falsely marking it as AI-created, it raises serious concerns about ownership especially when I’ve created it myself. It means that I do not own my own art. I also can’t turn this setting off or remove the credit. it’s locked.

I’ve tried to get help from Adobe. I contacted two different technicians via the chat system. They clearly didn’t know what to do, and after a long time trying to explain the issue, they just disconnected the chat. I then rang support only to be hung up on again after explaining everything clearly and politely. I can't seem to get help.

 

And here’s what’s even more confusing, how is it that Photoshop is forcing me to credit AI for my own, while AI generated art created through Adobe Firefly doesn't credit any of the original artists whose work it was trained on? That feels incredibly unfair. I create my work by hand, and yet I’m being penalized for simply referencing an image. while AI can generate entire artworks with no attribution at all.

If this can’t be resolved, I honestly don’t know how I can continue using Photoshop. I have hundreds of artworks now wrongly labeled as AI, I will have to find another platform unless the matter can be fixed. I'm devastated. 

I am happy to credit AI when it's warranted but in my case, it is not. Please adobe, provide a button to turn it off!

 

Has anyone else dealt with this? Is there any way to stop Photoshop from tagging hand-created art as AI-generated? Any help would be very much appreciated. I'm desperate. Thank you 🙏

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    DaBee
    Known Participant
    September 12, 2025

    Same awful issue for anyone using Adobe platform ....apps ....Ecosystem....as they have switched from  machine learning tools Ai tools. it appears they have distroyed our  copyright!  Over our own photography and digital art !  If not resolved it is just another AI platform  I can't download my original version  of cc I was promised I would be able to ...life time guarantee .....  'software end of life issues  is the final word" we don't own our work if we use it. If we use it  we can't identify and choose which tools are safe to use and which result in the  removal of our copyright and  a 1980s  watermark over the image.  Not a pleasant environment for relaxing and working on images. Seems  the new plan is to  skip forward and create a gaming senario  & education network  People pay for a subscription to learn & earn points for progression through the game then have their artwork kept in the eco system they can  earn an sell  show share relate.. if they accept the Branding  & zero copyright,   I'm inspired to  photograph chestnut trees.! Or perhaps more apporptialy generate them, I love editing my work , I love exploring Ai , I hate  loosing my rights to my work because I  removed the background quickly . I must retain the copyright 9control or who sees it who uses it choice to give it away choice to train Ai with it on all my work.  Ai can appear in the metadata the same as  everything else copy right  can remain with the artist. We drive the machines not the other way round. How do we sell to clients if we don't have copyright?  Perhaps we will be confined  by our apps which will give customers  a feeling that all work purchased from Adobe is safe all other may not be ??///  what do you think  is it a  distopian greedy environment  or  a healthy place to enjoy share  and grow .?  

    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 12, 2025
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    it appears they have distroyed our  copyright!  Over our own photography and digital art ! 

    What leads you to that conclusion? 

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    DaBee
    Known Participant
    September 12, 2025

    Ai  it appears world wide at the moment that  images made with Ai cannot be copyrighted.  The Artist must show significant effort was used in conjunction with Ai to prove copyright if there is a human author who contributed ‘independent intellectual effort’. Because of this, it is possible that works generated by AI which don’t have enough human input won’t be protected by copyright. '"  so Adobe is tagging the meta data in our images if Ai is used .  So if I take my photo  and use  remove tool or any other tool to make adjustments my image is no longer mine.   Unless I keep an editing record and go to  the. Effort of proving my effort is /was significant.  Adobe will mark it as Ai.  Once marked I have no copyright .  So it would be appropriate for Adobe to warn each time a tool is about to be use that it may result in the loss of intellectual property.  I have the right to uchoose to use or just edit my work without interferance. 

    Stephen Marsh
    Community Expert
    Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 12, 2025

    @defaultkzfqh03dgq6g 

     

    Before adding a reference image, in the reference image, merge all layers into one layer, then use Layer > Duplicate and then select a new file or the target artwork document. Close the reference image without saving the merged changes.

     

    If your original artwork is already tagged, then select all layers and use Layer > Duplicate Layers and select new document.

     

    P.S. The last time I looked, Content Credentials was still in beta and could be disabled.

      CMass
      Community Manager
      CMassCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      April 11, 2025

      Hey @defaultkzfqh03dgq6g, 

      I completely understand your frustration and want to help you figure this out. We also have several community experts who may offer additional guidance.

       

      First, thank you for taking the time to work through this—and I'm sorry you still don't have a clear answer. I have a few clarifying questions to help better understand the issue.

       

      If you're not using Generative AI within the file to create any part of your artwork, including the reference, then it shouldn't be tagged as AI-generated. Could you share your step-by-step workflow?

       

      You mentioned:

      "The only time AI has been involved is when I’ve used an AI-generated image as a reference, the same way you might use a stock photo or sketch."

       

      Was that AI-generated image created within Photoshop and used in the same file as your final artwork? If so, even if it's just used as a reference layer, the content credentials can tag the file as AI-generated. (See Content Credentials)

      Please tag @CMass so I don’t miss your response 😊

      Hope you have a great weekend!


      ^CM

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