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

Please please please PLEASE, can you guys make including Gen AI an opt-in toggle in the search parameters? I am not even asking to get rid of AI but please just make it an option you choose, or remember the preference so that I don't have to redo it EACH TIME I SEARCH. Making it the default to include Gen AI for every search is aggravating and such a flow disruptor. Many of us CAN NOT use Gen AI in client projects!

Anyone who uses this software and looks for a lot of stock knows that little things like this add up and really disrupt your workflow.

When I send a client the stock site to pick out stock photos, they don't remember to exclude Gen AI and we have to go back and redo the search. The quality just isn't there with a lot of the Gen AI stuff, and if I do see an AI image I happen to like I just go make my own rather than spending a credit on something a prompt made. Lately I have gotten some incredibly weird and frankly disturbing images included in my image searches, like this one while looking for photos of sleeping babies:

I appreciate the community updates that you guys have sent pledging to do AI ethically, but it's not an exaggeration to say that it's been forced on us whether we like it or not, and I really wish we could opt-in rather than opting out to use these tools. This would go a long way towards easing the tension. Adobe is supposed to be on the creatives side, but having to dodge and opt-out EVERY TIME we go to use your products is so annoying and exhausting and undercuts your whole claim. 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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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.

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.

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

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.

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

@Aurelio29948850tnvg,

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

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. 🙂

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.