The generative fill is almost useless now after 2025 update.

I can definitely understand the frustration, especially when Generative Fill was previously reliable for routine portrait retouching. The fact that even harmless edits like reducing eye bags are being blocked makes it difficult to separate legitimate retouching from genuinely restricted content. It might be worth testing the same images with different selections or prompts, but if the behavior is consistently tied to the subject rather than the edit, that sounds more like an overly aggressive moderation change than a problem with the workflow itself. Hopefully Adobe can clarify what changed in the 2025 update and provide a better way for professional photographers to complete normal client edits without repeated false positives.
 

O que vocês fizeram com a IA generativa? Completamente absurdo, precisei cancelar a assinatura porque não consigo trabalhar mais com a ferramenta e migrei pra outro app. Completamente horrível, geração ficou agressiva, forçada, artificial e não combina com a imagem. É difícil de acreditar como uma ferramenta tão absurda conseguiu se transformar nisso 😧 parabéns por destruírem algo que estava perfeito e dificultar totalmente a vida dos fotógrafos 

I have tried several times expanding backgrounds on pictures containing people and the AI insists on putting more people in. Not only not what I wanted - but introducing total strangers in group photos? Laughable.

Sorry I missread the thread… first thought it was this frustration covered in this video.  But it seems it may be a different issue. 
https://youtu.be/kpVADd-u2vU?si=o33BvX8bEjA5gsAf

I has happened to me in the past: The same image gets a warning and the next day, the same action will get nothing.

Take it as only my experience, not an official advice: Try to log off and log in again after a while.

Adobe is an American company, they take that kind of things seriously, based on whatever their legal team has advised.
It's probably more reflective of the society around than personal preferences from the dev team.

Hello, can you reshare your example i'll try to find a solution.

Thank you

As i'm STILL dealing with this issue, I'm just gonna go ahead and say Adobe needs to fire whoever decided the restrictions and guidelines. Literally, a clothed image of a woman no good, a woman smiling in the background no good, even if her body is barely in the picture no good. Never happens to pictures of men. Hypersexualizing anything to do with women is a joke at this point, 90% of my clients are women and I can barely work on their images anymore because of the degenerate who decided anything involving women, who use photoshop more than most men i'm sure, is bad. What a joke. Typical adobe adding "smart" features that are anything but rofl

I guess that's because the devs at Adobe are themselves more dirty-minded than the normal PS user and therefore programming their filters to GenFill's death.

I tried to remove a hand holding a banana - yes, maybe a suggestive, but harmless situation - of a child sitting on a couch. OF COURSE, completely dressed, smiling and so on. While I was able to remove individual parts of the banana (had to, as the whole thing was a no-no ofc), I was not able to remove the childs hand - even after the banana was gone.

I guess it's time to move on and hope for competitors and some plugin-ins for their software. Would make more sense to use some Stable Diffusion stuff or other models as Generative Fill alternatives.

If Adobe would at least react to our feedback... But currently my feedback mirrors my frustration over their bs filters.

Came here because I'm dealing with the exact same issue only now they decided to put gen fill on the Removal tool so I will literally highlight something it will just put it right back. The generative fill is absolutely useless I could get away with taking part of an eyelash now I can select 2 pixels and it will still give me an error, what's worse is it creates a layer for the generative fill everytime so if I forget to ctrl z I'll end up stacking like 3 or 4 layers of generative fills that failed, lord help me jesus

Downgraded back to 25.12 and it all works again. Definitely seems like it's a 26+ issue