From what I have experienced so far, clicking on ‘Generate’ options without having first downloaded Firefly doesn’t actually let you incorporate generative AI, which suits me just fine. I think so long as you don’t download Firefly you won’t have to deal with the AI crap. 

As far as data privacy, yeah I agree, there needs to be a lot more transpatency (not just from Adobe) on what their AI is being trained on, that data needs to be fully and completely made public, anything less implies they have something to hide.