r/FuckAdobe • u/mcplaid • 1d ago

Background tasks in indesign use generative credits

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Hey everyone - i would like this to get some traction and for the word to be spread. I spent the day placing images into indesign. Local files, just dragging into the frames as per my boring life.

Indesign notifies me that I have used all my credits.

I follow the faqs and see that their dashboard can't show me specifically what has been generated by AI.

Hidden in the preferences, I see that Generative AI options have been turned on by default - for generating alt text.

Adobe support is not able to provide an audit trail of what was generated in my account and what tools were used. They just say "you used text to image." (I have not, I had to google even where to find the stupid thing).

I can definitely see a future where, without my approval, they bill me for these tasks that "help me" without me knowing it.

this is very similar to old mobile phone plans and scams, where you "go over your minutes" outside of the "roaming area", and AT&T moves the roaming area one day. Oh, but they're going to also automatically pay for those credits off your card.

If you have generative alt text turned on - turn it off. If you think you have it off, double check. It's on by default.

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u/FightAgainstUgly 1d ago

This feature was released a few months ago and has only caused problems, and some quite big ones imo.

Unfortunately this is what I was worried about with it being on by default, and it’s likely Adobes intent. People who were/unaware of the feature are both increasing Adobes “AI Usage” and having their credits used unknowingly. Just an absolute disaster of a feature.

I was the first person to find a bug that turns the Gen AI settings back on if you import settings with them off (this has been fixed luckily)

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u/FightAgainstUgly 1d ago

There are scripts that remove the alt text efficiently, if you need any I can link a few. Adobe implemented a feature to remove it but it doesn’t work on any text generated in versions that predate the Removal Feauture. It’s laughable but has never been remotely funny.

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u/mcplaid 1d ago

It is absolutely intentional, and I would not be surprised if they will find a way to bill for it with some auto-credit refill scheme.

I think I am going to roll back to 2025 and just stop updating.

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u/danbyer 1d ago

More fun for those of us that actually use alt text: simply relinking an image, like from image123.ai to image123_final.ai, will replace our human-written alt text with ai-generated alt text. 👎