How to turn off Photoshop's "Generative AI feature"

Just a bit of an 'update' to this thread. They have given the option to completely turn off AI in the Remove Tool. I'm not sure exactly when this was added, but it's like this in version 26.3.0. You can toggle it to Auto, AI On, or AI Off. The AI Off will always use Content Aware Fill (like it did originally) rather than Generative Fill.

A couple of replies have suggested “just don’t use those features.” But there is a flaw in that approach, in that there may actually be very few Photoshop users who can accurately list which specific features use generative AI.

Recently someone replied to this thread:

The Remove Tool is also AI? I didn't realize that. Guess that's one more tool I'm going to have to avoid going forward.

By @SK321

The newest Photoshop users will have zero ability to precisely list which features use generative AI, and intermediate Photoshop users have a fair chance of not accurately separating out which features are:

• Content-Aware 
• AI / Machine learning / Neural 
• Generative AI 
• Not AI, just clever programming

But the third type of feature is the controversial one! It’s generative AI that is causing great concern in rights/legal/ethical/creative communities. It is that specific class of features that many want to avoid or disable and currently there is no effective way to, and also no simple way to know which exact list of features someone is supposed to “just avoid using.”

If someone does post a current list, that will be very helpful but…based on the rate of progress in just the last few months, the scope of generative AI features may change quickly as an application gets its continuous updates. There may be several more in a few months, but will they be a tool, an option in a tool, a menu command, the context bar? This is the dilemma for the users who may be required to not use generative AI:

How does one avoid unintentionally introducing generative AI, in an application where generative AI might be anywhere and is constantly being added in new ways?

@iBcampion just avoid using them?

You can turn off the Contextual Task Bar in the Windows menu, change the Crop Tool setting in the options bar above to "transparent (default)" and not use the Remove tool...