Adobe should make opt-out to all of gen ai feature for users.

The Content Authenticity Initiative is all about that. Adobe has been out in front on this subject from the git-go. Many of us signed up for CAI two years ago as soon as it went live.
https://www.contentauthenticity.org/
https://adobe.design/stories/process/behind-the-design-adobe-content-authenticity-app

Are you aware that we can already remove features from Photoshop Menus?

You can save your Custom Menus and Custom Toolbar (with Ai Tools removed via Edit Toolbar) to a Custom Workspace.

Then you can have a crafty look round to make sure no one is looking, and if the coast is clear, switch to the Essentials workspace, make your life easier by using an Ai tool, and switch back to your custom workspace.

It almost worked for this guy back in 2016, and that was when Photoshop Ai was still in its infancy.

I wish there was a way to protect an artist’s work, but there is no stopping AI

Dead internet theory, it's not theory anymore 😂

Aside from all the doom and gloom - which I easily subscribe to - there's a corner of my mind that just wants to sit back and watch this unfold: what happens as AI starts cannibalizing on itself? Easily 50% of all internet content is now AI-generated. Will it all eventually collapse into a singularity, where all AI essentially generates the same image? 

There is no way to stop AI companies from using your work. None. If its online, it can be grabbed. maybe... MAYBE there will be a legal framework, but in the US for example, that doesn't seem even remotely likely given the state of politics today.

Completely agree with this - many of us creatives want nothing to do with AI. It should be made easier not just to opt out from using AI tools but also to protect our work from AI scraping. For instance native functionality that protects your work at a pixel level from scraping. If the technology exists to scrape, the tech exists or should exist to protect from it, and audit and identify work that has been stolen.

Today I received a notice for my annual renewal, and effectively there is now an opt out. The previous Adobe Suite plan now comes with a $10 per month increase for all these unusable and broken beta features. Now you can purchase a "standard plan" for slightly less which doesn't include all the attempts at upchraging for the value added features of AI credits that don't work anyway. 

YESS!!! And introduce into metadata tagging that makes it clear you don't want your own IP scraped. 

@AJordan12 

I agree with all of that.

I was genuinely worried about the future of authentic creativity when generative AI first came on the scene. I still am - but as far as Photoshop is concerned, it has settled nicely. Every tool that can optionally use generative AI, now has a simple option to completely disable it. 

And the obligate gen AI tools are easily avoided.

So I think the original question has been resolved. Yes, we can now tun it off completely (good riddance...;-) )