“Adobe does not train Firefly Gen AI models on customer content. Firefly generative AI models are trained on a dataset of licensed content, such as Adobe Stock, and public domain content where copyright has expired.”
This references a single particular product. lol. If they’re training a model by a different name with customer data, it would still be a true statement.
The points about lawyers and NDA’s hit the nail on the head. I thought something similar with the Windows Recall debacle. That’s a juicy set of data for anyone looking to find journalist sources or scrape a hospital’s network. In every case it relies on the end user (business or individual) to know how to disable those features with GPOs/registry options… There’s no way 100% of them realize the issue and have the knowledge to fix it.
Interesting, we get to either hate them for going full big brother, or hate them for going full adobe in the first place. It’s nice to have a choice sometimes.
Riiiight. And, pray tell Adobe, why in the everloving fuck woul you ever need to “review” private content that’s not posted anywhere? Stop acting like you’re the goddamned pre-crime agency from Minority Report and keep your dirty paws off stuff people are creating privately.
You are providing tools, and that’s it. I can do horrible, illegal shit with my drill, but it doesn’t give Black&Decker any right to break into my house to do random checks and see if I’m drilling through kneecaps instead of wooden planks…
Every time we trusted a large tech promise on an unverifiable claim, they ended up shafting us. Just sayin’.
“We promise”
Source: Trust me, bro
Here’s a License change which implies we’re datafarming all your assets.
Here’s my word that we’re absolutely not goijf to be doing that. Trust me bro.
Okay, I promise the did go big brother.
So what now, my word against theirs?
“Promises”
Dear Adobe:
I. Don’t. Believe. You.
regards,
Me. And probably your entire end-user base.
But did they super duper pinky promise, cross their heart, hope to die, poke a needle in their eye??
claims that the company often uses machine learning to review user projects for signs of illegal content
OK, so what happens when Florida starts deciding more content is illegal?
Literally big brother shit.
Exactly my thoughts. Adobe is not the police and they should not be the ones trying to deter crime by any definition. How many horrible things have governments done to “protect the children”?
This is what Tumblr did too after they banned porn. It couldn’t tell the difference between the Sahara Desert and boobs.
Relevant Wikipedia?
adobes promises are meaningless. you are now their product
I’m betting the reason they want access to “moderate” your projects is to train their AI. Literally looking to steal artists work before it’s out the door.
That’s absolutely what’s going on.
A fun way to combat this would be to get every artist to add giant, throbbing dicks to everything they create in Photoshop with the hope that it creates the thirstiest, nastiest AI model out there.
Not just dicks, but dicks mixed with other art so it just completely pollutes the training data and the AI has no idea how to draw anything without it kind of looking like a dick. Dicks with human and animal faces, boats shaped like dicks, dick buildings and landscapes etc.
It would take an immense amount of bad data to actually work, but it would be funny.
But “big brother” would mean they watch you.
I read everywhere that they claim the rights to your projects, which is far worse than just watching over your shoulder innit?
Where did you read that? I can bet it wasn’t the TOS, because that’s not in there. The TOS allows Adobe to review anything you create with its products using manual or automated means, and maybe restricted to normal screening for CSAM and such (although it’s really ambiguous about what they’ll actually do with it).
Oh, if they PROMISE.
Fuck Adobe. I’ll pirate PS and AI until I die. Greedy fucking pigboys.
Pirating Adobe software is exactly what they want you to do. Their business model relies on businesses paying for their license because people already know how to use their software, in large part because people pirate it, and also they have deals with schools to teach their software.
What Adobe actually doesn’t want you to do is to learn the software of their competition, since that’s how they will lose money in the long term.
This. Right here.
The main reason we need to push for open source alternatives is this. The more people learn how to use them the more content around them we get and more people take interest in using it and helping develop it (and donate to it).
Is there an open source PDF editor? I would really love anything other than acrobat.
You can host your own version of stirling. It’s open source and can do all sorts of things with pdf
I use Figma at work hahaha
Those are the easiest apps to replace. I’ll just use Gimp and Inkscape until I die. Not even tempted by Adobe’s bloat, spyware, etc.
That 15 yr old cracked CS5 I have on an old hard drive is looking mighty scrumptious right now.
