Art and AI are making headlines again – but this time it’s not about robot-generated masterpieces.
Instead, the focus is on Adobe’s content analysis policy. social media Users highlighted like that Photoshop Developer uses content stored on its servers: it seems that Adobe uses it for training AI.
In response, a flurry of users began listing ways to lock down privacy settings across the suite of Creative cloud and document cloud applications. Even the team behind it Free drawing software Krita joined the Twitter storm, describing Adobe’s actions as “ew.”
Adobe Content Analysis
The online pushback began when Adobe added content analytics to its data collection permissions — without first giving all users a chance to opt-in.
A common screenshot explains the new option: “Adobe may use techniques such as machine learning to analyze your content to develop and improve our products and services. If you prefer Adobe not to analyze your files in order to further develop and improve our services, you can opt out of content analysis at any time. This setting does not apply under certain circumstances.”
Without disabling this option, creators could unknowingly find that their work is being used to train algorithms.
However, this is not a new policy. The original text can be found on the frequently asked Questions (opens in new tab)last updated in August 2022. There the company further explains:
“Adobe mainly uses machine learning in Creative Cloud and Document Cloud to analyze your content. Machine learning describes a subset of artificial intelligence in which a computer system uses algorithms to analyze and learn from data without human intervention in order to draw inferences from patterns and make predictions.”
Artificial intelligence has been one of Adobe’s biggest successes in recent years. Dubbed Adobe Sensei, it runs through everything acrobat to PremiereProdelivering higher quality results through a more accessible creative toolstack.
It turns out, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Sensei’s secret ingredient is user content. These include Adobe Stock, Adobe Expressand light room Submissions, beta participation and improvement programs and processing of the structural elements of PDFs.
In response to the outcry, an Adobe spokesperson told multiple publications that users remain in control of their privacy preferences and settings, reiterating that this is a longstanding policy. So, then everything is fine.
