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Adobe to update vague AI terms after users threaten to cancel subscriptions (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Adobe has promised to update its terms of service to make it "abundantly clear" that the company will "never" train generative AI on creators' content after days of customer backlash, with some saying they would cancel Adobe subscriptions over its vague terms.

Users got upset last week when an Adobe pop-up informed them of updates to terms of use that seemed to give Adobe broad permissions to access user content, take ownership of that content, or train AI on that content. The pop-up forced users to agree to these terms to access Adobe apps, disrupting access to creatives' projects unless they immediately accepted them.

For any users unwilling to accept, canceling annual plans could trigger fees amounting to 50 percent of their remaining subscription cost. Adobe justifies collecting these fees because a "yearly subscription comes with a significant discount."

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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think the problem was only with what they would do with the content but that they would have access to it in the first place.

Its photo editing software, not a surveillance platform, wtf?

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

It's a surveillance platform that lures victims in with the promise of being photo editing software. It is also photo editing software, but this is not its main purpose for Adobe. Adobe started this surveillance a long time ago.