Adobe is almost definitely using your content to train AI

Date:
Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:49:22 +0000

Description:
Adobe reported to be training its AI with user-generated content.

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Art and AI have been hitting the headlines again - but this time, its not about robot-generated masterpieces.

Instead, its Adobes content analysis policy in the firing line. Social media users highlighted how the Photoshop developer uses content saved on its servers: it appears Adobe may be using it to train AI .

In response, a flurry of users began to list ways to lockdown privacy
settings across the suite of Creative Cloud and Document Cloud apps. Even the team behind free drawing software Krita joined the Twitterstorm, describing Adobes actions as ew. Adobe content analysis

The online pushback began when Adobe added content analysis to its data collection permissions - without letting all users opt in first.

In a circulated screenshot, the new option explains Adobe may analyze your content using techniques such as machine learning to develop and improve our products and services. If you prefer that Adobe not analyze your files to develop and improve our services, you can opt out of content analysis at any time. This setting does not apply in limited circumstances. Read More

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Without toggling this option off, creatives could unwittingly find their work being used to train algorithms.

However, this isnt a new policy. The original text can be found on the FAQs , last updated in August 2022. There, the company further explains:

Adobe primarily uses machine learning in Creative Cloud and Document Cloud to analyze your content. Machine learning describes a subset of artificial intelligence in which a computing system uses algorithms to analyze and learn from data without human intervention to draw inferences from patterns and
make predictions.

Artificial intelligence has been one of Adobes biggest successes over the
last few years. Dubbed Adobe Sensei, it runs through everything from Acrobat to Premiere Pro , delivering higher-quality outputs across a more accessible creative toolstack.

It turns out - perhaps unsurprisingly - Senseis secret sauce is user content. This includes Adobe Stock, Adobe Express , and Lightroom submissions, beta participation and improvement programs, and processing the structural
elements of PDFs.

Responding to the outcry, an Adobe spokesperson told multiple publications that users maintain control over their privacy preferences and settings, reiterating that this was a long-standing policy. So, thats all right then. Step away from Adobe with the best Lightroom alternatives



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