How can I permanently disable AI-generated images showing up in my searches?

[sohobella]

I've noticed very poor quality AI-generated images showing up in my Adobe Stock searches. The only way to filter these out is to manually select a box "Exclude AI-generated Imagery" every single time I do a search. If I begin a new search it defaults back every single time to include AI-imagery.

I cannot use AI-generated imagery in my work as a designer. I am against the concept of it, and it's decimating the creative industries. Also, the images are horrible quality and not professional.

I need a way to permanently disable AI-imagery showing up in my searches. Adobe, can you please add this as a function to my account?

I also hope more creatives speak up about this in the comments below. I am considering leaving Adobe as a customer if they continue to push poor quality AI-generated content on their site.

[Abambo]

The search filter is unfortunately not sticky. I will move this to "ideas", as I think that a certain number of filters really should be sticky.

I also hope more creatives speak up about this in the comments below. I am considering leaving Adobe as a customer if they continue to push poor quality AI-generated content on their site.

By @sohobella

Contributors complain about a recent, very stringent checking of their assets (and an increased rejection rate). I agree that some generative AI assets are bad quality, especially those accepted at the very beginning. But all in all, I suppose, that generative AI is poised to stay, and we have better to live with that new form of image generation.

(FYI: I currently do not contribute generative AI.)

[maryzintus]

You seem to assume that customers who come to Adobe Stock for images are mostly happy to use AI generated images for their own audiences.  Photos might be touched up and sometimes even over-edited, but they are a capture of actual physical scenes.  I don't want my own customers discovering that I use AI generated pixel positioning to entice them to trust me.  I accept that not everybody will agree with me, but the use of AI images is a misguided abandoment of the craft and experience of photographers whose greatest input is their interpretation of the physical world their eyes are observing.  

For a company the size and nature of Adobe to force fake images onto every marketing person using their Stock image service is affronting.  At least give us a choice.  I'm so fed up with having to switch AI images off in the filters that I'm ready to quit Abobe and find another stock service that has a little more respect for my preferences.  It's not unreasonable to expect an account-wide setting to exlcude or include AI images, or at least sticky filters.  This is what happens when developers run the show instead of UX specialists. 

[Abambo]

@maryzintus,

Quote: You seem to assume 

Who is "you"?

[daniellei4510]

ARTISTS’ REACTION TO PHOTOGRAPHY:

Some painters, such as Courbet, welcomed photography as an ally in his reaction against the classical academic style. Many others, however, who had spent years learning their craft, felt disdainful of a commonly-available mechanical device that lacked the painter's trained discriminating and expressive eye.

PHOTOGRAPHERS’ REACTION TO PHOTOSHOP:

Some photographers and artists expressed doubt and criticism when Photoshop was initially introduced in 1988 because they were worried about how it would affect the art industry. Here are several explanations for why Photoshop initially encountered opposition, similar to how some people today have reservations about AI-generated art.

It's here to stay. 

But to address a much earlier point in this thread: I don't think making files types "sticky" is the answer. But the ability to checkmark file types one doesn't want to see should be available during the very first search and remain checked until the user returns to do another search, since file type requirements could change. Then, people who don't want to see a given file type won't have it thrown in front of them at the start.

[maryzintus]

You = Adobe.  

[maryzintus]

100% agree.

[Matt30747124fpzc]

100% agree. I cannot use AI generated images in my job, so having to manually set this filter every time I do a search is incredibly irritating.

[Aurelio29948850tnvg]

How about Adobe lets us switch it off and it stays off until they update something big and then we decide if we leave it on or shut it off again until the next update.

I think it's a fair common ground, AI won't go anywhere, but I'd rather won't use it until it can overcome that creepy uncanny valley.

[daniellei4510]

It's been said that one can filter out ai by typing -ai after one's search prompt. It doesn't work as it's suppposed to, but it does seem to exclude more ai than by not adding it to the prompt at all. Also, one is not presented with the option to exclude ai (or any other file type for that matter) until one performs an initial search. So -ai will at least improve an initial search. Or so it appears. I haven't played with it all that much.

Full transparency, I submit nothing BUT ai, so I'm telling you this out of the kindness of my heart. 🙂

[Abambo]

@Aurelio29948850tnvg,

You will need to vote for this idea. Sticky filters are possible, as the adult content filter shows.

[Martin3555629945t5]

Bring on the vote. I refuse to use AI generated images and need this function ASA.

[katiee85550354]

I'm so frustrated with Adobe Stock and the fact that I can't PERMANENTLY ban Generative AI imagery from appearing in my searches.  I NEVER want to use it, and I hate that I have to constantly filter it out every time I do a search.   This is something I should be able to set and forget in my settings.

Can anyone tell me how to reach someone at Adobe - who speaks English fluently - about this?

The few times I've tried complaining about it, the person I spoke with spoke English as a second language and I couldn't get them to understand what I wanted.

[moderator merging this into similar request]

[Jill_C]

I agree. Users should have the option of selecting "sticky" Filters on the filter panel, or have some other way of permanently excluding certain results from their searches.

[katiee85550354]

Yes! That would be so awesome.

[Abambo]

There is an idea for a sticky generative AI filter. Make sure to upvote that.

[daniellei4510]

I would like to see the left filter sidebar actively displayed on the first search page. That would solve a lot of issues, sticky or not.

[katherinek88091709]

Please make generative AI filter sticky. It's a waste of my time to constantly turn it off. Same with Standard vs Premium content.

[Jill_C]

Did you press the Up Arrow at the type of this thread? Apparently, the more votes it garners, the more likely that Adobe will pay attention to the request from Buyers.

[elliott5286266]

Show AI as a label BEFORE hovering at the very least. Don't make me guess if it's AI. Also, make AI a TOP LEVEL FILTER. Put it right next to the search box and make it obvious.

We get it, if you can generate the images yourself you don't have to pay royalties to actual artists even though you trained your AI on the artists images... but for the love of god make it easier to filter out the trash as a default. Every time I have to disable it, it's after I search for something and find an image that looks nice as thumbnail, then I notice a detail that looks like a glitch in the matrix and say "damnit, it's AI". Then I have to waste another 20 seconds turning the filter off.

[Jill_C]

Did you Upvote this feature request? (go all the way to the top of the screen to do so).