The photo and video editing software giant Adobe will finally reverse its new conditions of use, deemed abusive.
Creating content with Photoshop or Premiere and risking an outright ban from your account, while allowing the Firefly AI to train on its own creations, this is what awaited users of Adobe products by accepting the new conditions of ‘use.
But faced with the revolt of creators, and more generally criticism on social networks, Adobe finally backed down.
Adobe clarifies its rules
On its official blog, the photo and video editing software giant announces that it is revoking its conditions which stipulated that Adobe could access your photos stored in the cloud and even reserved the right to close your account for rather vague reasons, but also to let your in-house AI train on the creations thus available.
“We have never trained our generative AI on our customers’ content, taken ownership of a customer’s work, or authorized access to a customer’s content beyond legal requirements,” Adobe assures.
Scott Belsky, Adobe’s product director, acknowledged that the wording was “not clear” and that it was now a matter of “regaining trust”: “We should have more proactively reduced the conditions so that they correspond to what we actually do, and thus better explain what our legal requirements are.”
With Firefly, its generative AI, Adobe trains it on images under free license or in the public domain in order to avoid an ethical problem, by drawing on content under copyright – which did not prevent certain controversies arise. The company, regularly accused of monopolistic practices by its detractors, has clarified its conditions of use to respond to criticism.
These now clearly state that a user of Adobe products is “the owner of [son] content” and that it will “never” be used as part of generative AI training. An element also added in full and adds that it does not analyze any content stored “locally”. Nevertheless, an automated system verification of content on the cloud remains present, in particular to report problematic content, which falls under the scope of the law.
