A photographer trying to remove props from product photos discovers Adobe's generative AI blocks the word "seamless" without explanation. He spends time stripping out words he thought were flagged for sensitivity, only to find a basic design term was the culprit. Adobe's opaque moderation rules are breaking standard workflows.
So I'm editing some product photos for a client and they were shot on a white seamless backdrop, but for some of the products we had to prop them up. So there's little things in the pictures that I need to go into Photoshop to remove. Photoshop has these generative AI removal tools, but they have certain words that you're not allowed to use. Like you can't make it generate boobs, right? Which makes sense, or 13-year-old boys with Photoshop would be making it generate lots and lots of boobs, right? So, but I was putting in a white seamless backdrop, white seamless background, things that nature, and it kept rejecting them. And I, oh, well, maybe it's, you know, something to do with race and white. And, you know, it doesn't want you to like make somebody white or something like that. Right. So I was like, okay, let me just take out white and it still was rejecting them. So I was like, okay, well, I don't know what else it could possibly be. It turns out it's the word seamless. Now, again, this is Photoshop. Any product that you see that's not on a model or being demonstrated in a real life scenario is shot on a white seamless background or some other seamless background. Why, Adobe? Why are you blocking the word seamless from your generative AI? Please explain. Thank you.
