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.

[Philip22712894tooo]

Once again, Adobe has "experts" answering these community forum questions who are apologists for Adobe and not actually addressing this larger topic in a meaningful way. Let's be clear: ADOBE, MY CORPORATE CLIENTS LEGALLY CANNOT USE AI IMAGES. BY MAKING ME OPT OUT ON EACH IMAGE SEARCH HUNDREDS OF TIMES A DAY, AND INCLUDING AI IMAGES "ACCIDENTALLY" IN SEARCH RESULTS YOU ARE OPENING MY STUDIO UP TO LEGAL LIABLITY. PLEASE ALLOW ME TO PERMANENTLY OPT OUT OF AI IN MY IMAGE SEARCHES! FIX THIS!

[Jill_C]

Did you upvote this idea at the top of this page? Supposedly, Adobe takes into account the amount of support for an idea when they're considering what changes to implement. This one has been asked for repeatedly for about 3 years now...

[designb10020503]

Oh yeah, but it does nothing. I've found every additional forum that talks about this topic and upvoted it as well to try to get them to notice and nothing happens. Adobe doesnt give support they just provide these forums for tips and tricks for users to discuss together and help like "how do i create outlined text" so to speak. But when it comes to flaws or failures in the software itself your SOL as they dont do anything. Ive had issues that have been discussed for 5 years and they never get touched despite having many upvotes. You cant contact them directly either, ive attempted via the chat and spent an hour just getting "how can I help? okay let me connect you to someone who can help....[new person] how can i help? [ i repeat myself] great let me get you to someone who can help" and spent an hour going through that process. The help from adobe is a joke. Ive come to the point of giving them negative reviews when asking about recommendiung their software and just point out the support issue. UI dont see this or any issue changing to be frank. Its why so many users are leaving adobe all together. 

[philipk88448296]

I am the one who started this thread three years ago… I think the election is rigged on this one!

[Ben @Bliz]

For legal reasons my company cannot risk using GenAI images, but they are always presented in search results by default. This means every time I open Adobe Stock, I have to run my first search twice (the second time with"Exclude Generative AI" manually checked.

Please add the capacity for AdobeStock to remember this filter choice. Additionally, please add an identifying badge in the corner of the thumbnail for GenAI images so that I don't accidentally select one.

[Moderator merged the thread.]

[Ben @Bliz]

Adobe--this is a super easy decision and we want it. You're burning computer resources to generate images nobody wants.

[Ben @Bliz]

This seems like an incredibly desired feature. Does Adobe read these forums?

[michaelm2239504]

Likely, they (Adobe) use standard corporate approaches to this. It would have to have enough votes to get on the radar screen of the Product Managers. Do I think this is the best approach? No, I don't ... but our society is set up that way (x number of votes gets the nod ... maybe ... but subject to the usual background layers of corporate priorities). So I live with it (somewhat under duress given that it is a paid service). It's how The System works with whatever corporate-speak and rationales behind it all. So, yes, some of these might get read by decision makers. But many only get a cursory glance unless it aligned with higher-level interests. Never hurts to speak up though! Me? I am cancelling most of my Adobe licenses until they start listening. If Adobe was a restaurant, I would think twice about going back. They have some decent products, but it is the whole package of service (like at a restaurant) that matters.

[tessa_7298]

I have the same problem within Adobe Express. Drives me crazy. There is a little icon marking them as gen AI images, but I want to hide them altogether, without having to re-select the filter every seingle time. I also don't want to be wasting resources generating AI images that I will never use. 

[Abambo]

Be sure to upvote the idea!

[Abambo]

 Does Adobe read these forums?
By Ben @Bliz 

Yes!

[rodrigob49755234]

We are approaching two years from the original post without a solution for this. I don't think they'll ever change it.

For anyone interested, my extensions for Chrome and Firefox still work.

They change the URL locally to force the Exclude AI filter automatically.

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/adobe-stock-ai-remover/mnffogghgphkbchlaobpokaoaphpmgej

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/adobe-stock-ai-remover/

The extensions have no ads and don't collect any data.

If you can't install extensions for some reason, let me know if you want the code to run your own extension locally.

[designb10020503]

No they dont. Never seen a response, this thread is over 3 years old and no response other than weird adobe fan bots who say things like "upvoet the original" which does nothing....adobe lacks support

[designb10020503]

this does nothing here, its over 3 years old, adobe doesnt care lol

[Jill_C]

Adobe is well aware of this request. Some months ago, they actually briefly implemented a change in the Buyer portal that automatically eliminated AI images in searches unless that checkbox was unchecked. However, due to a fervent outcry among Contributors, they actually removed it less than a day later, which I think was a mistake. 

[michaelm2239504]

No doubt the outcry to keep AI enabled was predominantly from the
pro-AI-by-default users.

Perhaps Adobe could consider Shutterstock's approach
https://support.submit.shutterstock.com/s/article/Shutterstock-ai-and-Computer-Vision-Contributor-FA...

[designb10020503]

Adobe is basically selling out for AI money at this point at the cost to the people who put them where they are, shameful, hopefully enough people willend subscriptions and make them see that AI computers wont pay their bills and they need to listen to the actual people who fund their wallets. 

[Abambo]

There is an idea that asks for making the filter setting about generative AI sticky. I will merge this idea with that one, as the spirit of the idea is the same, and votes will be concentrated on ONE common idea. That gives the idea more power. 😉

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@cfcmdesign wrote:

Please stop listening to investors and the C-suite on this one thing and listen to the people who actually have to use your stuff every day.

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Customers vote with their purse. Investors too, so that is a common goal. No contracts, no money, unhappy inestors. But it seems to me that generative AI assets are a huge success and they sell well, even that I, personally, think that Adobe does a bad job with asset moderation with generative AI. Not all custommers are as critical as we here, or not all customers have the same constraints. I see many cheap advertisements using bad generative AI as eye catcher.

Ben @Bliz wrote:

You're burning computer resources to generate images nobody wants.

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Generative AI assets sell well. Somebody buys them. 

[Anonymous Aardvark]

We also need sticky filters for other things, too. 

My company can't use AI images so including them wastes my time. Same with editorial only images. It makes zero sense to show a customer an image only to have them click to license and get the *womp, womp* response that it's not included in their license. Other stock images have excluding AI and exclude editorial only images as sticky settings. 

[JUST Water]

Currently I don't see a way to permanently set Adobe Stock to exclude AI-generated images from my searches. (The "Exclude Generative AI" filter needs to be applied each time I search.) As a company we've decided that until such time as we feel entirely AI generated images are comparable in quality to good photography, we generally are not allowing it to be used. This means that when searching, we have to find and apply the "Exclude Generative AI" filter many times a day, and when we're in a hurry or forget to do this get exposed to large numbers of poor quality AI images. Often it's not obvious the images are AI until after we've downloaded and viewed them up close, which is too late because we've already purchased them. This is a waste of time and money, and is very irritating. To solve this, it would be great if Adobe offered a global setting which excludes AI-generated images from Adobe Stock search. We are currently planning to replace Adobe Stock with a competitor in 2026, if this is not addressed by then. Thank you for your consideration!

[moderator merged this with a similar idea]

[Abambo]

There is no sticky option for any filter in Adobe stock. But there is an idea of the same with already hundreds of upvotes. Make sure to join that one and upvote.

Someone also created a small add on for chrome, to set the filter each time you visit Adobe stock. If I find back, I will post the link here.

[JUST Water]

Thanks! I'm using the Chrome add on now. Works great!

[Philip22712894tooo]

Here is iStock's response when I do an image search. Maybe it's time to start using other stock agencies. Adobe does not have a monopoly.... yet. Any junior coder at Adobe could make this toggle happen in 5 minutes. It's insulting that Adobe can't even respond to this thread. 

[Philip22712894tooo]

Here is a great example-- see the below image. I am working for a hotel client under a tight deadline, they approved the below image using the preview as a reference. Now we are ready to go to press and.... the people look like zombies and the women in center of image has three eyes. The image is ridiculous, I look unprofessional as a designer, my client is frustrated, and Adobe keeps ignoring this thread!

[michaelm2239504]

Yep ... I cancelled my subscription despite liking their products. Getting
fed up with their corporate attitude and piling in far too much
AI-whatever. Put the AI stuff in another heap with a brick wall between
artists-creators and AI-stuff and I will reconsider subscription.

For now they have lost a customer.