The generative fill is almost useless now after 2025 update.

[dad26730775spfw]

I never encountered this issue as bad until updating to the 2025 version. I have been trying to edit wedding clients, ELDERY CLIENTS, peoples selfies. GenFill Community guidelines instantly deny any single photo involving a woman. All of these would have been do-able prior to the upgrade. It could be her face; none of my shoots have been anything remotely NSFW. Yet every single photo gets declined, even removing an eye bag. It's ridiculous, as the 2024 version never gave me this issue. It's now making my job twice as hard and it is impossible to edit 90% of my clients now. I feel like I'm paying for a service that downgraded its quality and instead of being a tool that helps me is now costing me more time and money?

[Alexandre Becquet]

I don't have this kind of issue but if you try with the other tools you can do your work? Maybe you can test the actions or scrips?
Can you share few screenshots to see?

[dad26730775spfw]

Here is an example of a "selfie" I'm trying to fix up for someone. Anything with a woman, it declines. As you see, she's covered. I can't even tilt a photo... This never happened before unless it had NSFW. Also, I attached my internet speeds as I also want to mention that it is INCREDIBLY slow since the update as well. Video link: it wouldnt upload here for whatever reason https://streamable.com/jkwh9p 

[dad26730775spfw]

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

[Sea31716716blcw]

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

[Aleke]

Hi @Sea31716716blcw,

Sorry for the trouble you're having. Could you share your System Info? You can find it by going to Help > System Info. Just copy the text into a file and attach it here in your response.

Also, could you share a screenshot or a video of the error you're experiencing?

Thanks a lot!

Alek

[dawid.w]

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.

[Aleke]

Hey @dawid.w!

I'm really sorry about the frustration you're experiencing. As you know, the technology behind Generative Fill isn't perfect yet, but it's constantly improving. We always aim to balance user freedom with our guidelines and the rights of others.

Sometimes, if there's any visible skin on the body, the AI might play it safe and assume it's adult content.

If you think this is a mistake, please hit the "Provide Feedback" button whenever you encounter an issue with Generative AI, so we can make this tool better. You can also share your feedback in this thread.

In the meantime, you could try creating a mask to hide the layer that shows skin and do your edits on a different layer. I know it's not ideal, but it should help.

Thanks a bunch!

Alek

[dad26730775spfw]

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

[Alexandre Becquet]

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

Thank you

[Imaginerie]

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.

[Lukas Engqvist]

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