Adobe users are outraged over vague new policy's AI implications
Adobe has issued a statement clarifying that it does not train its Firefly AI models on unpublished user content. You can read more about the statement here.
Changes to Adobe's Terms of Service have users confused and outraged that their work — even unpublished and in-progress projects — may be used to train AI models.
Users of various Adobe apps including Photoshop and Substance Painter received a pop-up notice on Wednesday saying "we may access your content through both manual and automated methods, such as for content review."
"Our automated systems may analyze your Content and Creative Cloud Customer Fonts (defined in section 3.10 (Creative Cloud Customer Fonts) below) using techniques such as machine learning in order to improve our Services and Software and the user experience."
The language is vague. But the specific mention of "automated systems" and using "machine learning in order to improve our Services and Software," immediately drew concerns that users' creative work would be used as training data for Adobe's AI tools.
