Maybe you want opt-in? That's where you have to choose to use them? Opt-out would be tools being automatically applied to your image and you having to decline. Tools are already opt-in. You have to manually choose to use them.
I'm for this. I don't mind opt-out, it could be a checkbox in Preferences to disable Firefly. The point is that some of us feel things are crossing an ethical line nowadays, and we prefer to stay on the other side of that line.
You can choose to not use the tools, but that line is pretty blurred by now.
Content aware fill is fine, because it uses data already in the image. It's predictable. It doesn't pull in anything external.
There is a very clearly visible red line here, and it's where the algorithm uses outside data. I don't have enough technical insight to know how Adobe Sensei is different from Firefly, but there is a clear functional distinction that is easy to see. It's the generative part that I don't like and don't want.
Ethically, I think this is very clear cut. It's about passing off work as your own, when you didn't actually do it.
Obviously, there's a whole range of advanced tools that let you alter an image substantially. That's fine, that's why you use Photoshop in the first place. Any experienced photographer knows that a photo is not reality, it's an interpretation of reality. There's a lot of leeway there. But you're in charge, you decide what the finished result is, and you have to do the work to get there.
Oh, and BTW, it would be very easy. Just a checkbox that yanks out the virtual internet cable.
Photoshop is a creative tool. Acrobat Reader goes on most corporate desktops. I'm not surprised that as a business decision, Adobe included that killswitch.
Accept the Firefly Terms of Use: If you haven't already, agree to the Firefly Terms of Use that appears.
The Mode setting in the Remove Tool is set based on the Terms of Use acceptance. Manually change the Mode setting in the options bar as needed: • Auto (May use generative AI) - default if TOU was accepted • Always use generative AI • Never use generative AI - default if TOU was declined
I don't know which of their engineers thought that leaving a generative fill window permanently in the middle of the image would be a good idea. But really, it's completely incoherent.
They make all kinds of interfaces to be able to hang the windows where you want them, but strangely enough it's impossible. It drives me mad! Image editing software with a window right in the middle of working space ! (abuse removed)
It's called the Contextual Task Bar, as it changes depending on what you are doing. You can close it, pin it to a specific location, or reopen it (Window menu). Details here:
But I'm well aware of how it works, thank you! I'm just not trying to hide it because I'm using these functions. My wish is that it can find a place in one of the menus, for example it could be very well on a single line at the very bottom of the window, even if it changes depending on the tool you're using. That's where I'd put it if I was given the option of hanging it, but that's not the case. Maybe there's a way of attaching it to a menu, but I don't think so. The fact that it's wandering around and I have to move it all the time and that it's in the middle of the action, I find problematic.
@kenzo_2165 wrote: Maybe there's a way of attaching it to a menu, but I don't think so. The fact that it's wandering around and I have to move it all the time and that it's in the middle of the action, I find problematic
I'm confused Kenzo. The Contextual Task Bar is already in the Window menu, and you were already told that you can pin it on your workspace so you don't have to keep moving it. Can you clarify your issue?
The use of Generative-AI is increasingly being banned by photographic organisations for competitions (e.g. FIAP). However, it is becoming harder and harder to avoid generative AI in Photoshop as it is not clear which tools are using it and in which circumstances. It would be much better if the user could disable all use of generative AI via a single setting in PS, to avoid them inadvertantly falling foul of the rules.
I do not hate AI, some incredible artworks are being produced using these tools, however, I need to be in full control of every part of my image, so I would love to be able to turn off AI in Photoshop globally
Thank you! I know adobe's generative ai policy is more ethical and candid than other unethical and dishonest companies but many users really don't want to use generative ai to their works. thanks for hearing the voice of users.
We need to have the option, as those of us using PS to fine tune our images for competitions are not allowed to include any external data in our images.
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