Photoshop forcing Content Credentials on ALL exports, regardless of AI usage or disabled settings

​@ahweber 

Not exactly hidden, but yes, like everything else, you have to know about it. I never use any generative AI, ever, and it’s not difficult to avoid.

All that said, there is an active feature request to add a master switch in Preferences that disables all generative AI in one go. They said they’ll “look into that”, and so far it has 158 votes, one of them mine. You should add yours too.

https://community.adobe.com/feature-requests-713/adobe-should-make-opt-out-to-all-of-gen-ai-feature-for-users-655758

I can’t reproduce this on my Mac running Tahoe 26.5.1 and Photoshop 27.8. I opened an image, removed something with Generative Remove, and then selected Export as. I did get a question about it, but could simply refuse to use Content Credentials and that’s it. See screenshots.

There’s a couple of tools that can optionally use Firefly. If on, that will trigger Content Credentials. Here’s the Remove tool for instance:

Note that any generative AI tool used will watermark the file permanently - even if that AI generated content is later removed. Content Credentials only knows the tool was used, it doesn’t keep track of the file’s subsequent history.

Any AI used will trigger a watermark and you can’t turn that off. If you could, that would obviously defeat the whole purpose. This is for ensuring the authenticity of photographs. Enabling it in Preferences just means you can add your own provenance that will follow the file thereafter.