Disable Generate with Elementor AI at Featured Image
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I have turned off the Build with AI option under Settings/Features, but the Generate with Elementor AI prompt still exists under the Featured Image controls in the post settings.
Please tell me there is a way to simply turn off the Generate with Elementor AI prompt at the Featured Image section in the options of the sidebar when drafting a post.
Our news site uses images and graphics provided by bands and labels. We will never have the need to generate anything with AI, let alone our Featured Images. It’s just another useless tool that gets accidentally clicked on all of the time, especially when staff are drafting up posts on the go with a mobile or smaller device.
While I understanding that every company and their mother think that AI needs to be shoved down our throats for everything, and that someone may actually need this function; many don’t. A setting to remove it as an option for those who don’t want it should be included
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That’s sad to hear, @marthaeli. I am in the same situation as @aspleniastudios and -now I must say: sadly- in the final stages of creating several websites for my clients.
They now have to deal with these annoying upsell links (it’s not only the “generate with Elementor AI”, but also the image compression plug-in that you “recommend”), which will not only lead to irritation, but also – I’m sorry to say it so bluntly – look as unprofessional as it gets and I have to answer for it, which is a situation that no freelance designer, nor an agency account manager will say: “Yeah, let’s do this.”
I certainly won’t pay a premium price for that. It would already be outrageous if I, as an Elementor user (also Premium license holder), were to be bothered with these annoying links for a function that I don’t use and will never use out of principle. But the fact that this is also enforced on my customers is an absolute no-go and a definite deal-breaker.
As harsh as this might sound, please don’t get me wrong:
I am not bashing or hating, otherwise I wouldn’t have used Elementor (Pro) for several years (and really enjoyed using it) and recommended it to others because your builder is the most user-friendly solution I have ever came across and recommended to customers. But shoehorning your and our customers into having to deal with trend topics that will never be used here and that can’t even be deactivated for customers is really the point at which I have to think about the technical basis on which I can create my customers’ sites in the future.I really hope you will reconsider this kind of not only intrusive but, in my opinion, already abusive kind of up- and after-sales methods. As I mentioned above: It’s not meant as “bashing” and I’d still love to use Elementor (Pro), but that is definitely the red line that I will not cross.
New version, new annoyance: Just updated to the most current version of Elementor (and Elementor Pro), et voila: Now you get the AI-stuff shoehorned in the right-click context menu in the Navigator, too. You’re really going for it, aren’t you?
(Edit: Maybe it was there one or several updates before, but that would miss the point. I have no interest in using your or any so-called AI stuff. And forcing this feature on users and customers, even the ones who are paying the Pro version, at various locations throughout the editing options and the dashboard is exactly what I mentioned a few days ago: not just annoying, but abusive).
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