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.”
The problem isn’t the clarity of the terms.
The problem is that we all know they are lying and don’t believe a word they say.
“We are sorry you noticed, we didn’t think anyone would read all that.” -Adobe, probably
All these companies are really testing how much you can erode customer trust. Let’s see how that plays out.
They’ve set the board, and are betting they’re too big to fail and that enough choice has been eliminated consumers won’t have viable options.
Your move America.
Americans too wrapped up in shiny AI hype
-signed American citizen
“canceling annual plans could trigger fees amounting to 50 percent of their remaining subscription cost” You cannot unilaterally change the T&Cs without an option to opt out of the new conditions, but still insist on the old T&C terms. WTF is wrong with Adobe, are they stupid?
Yes
Hahaha these asswipes can write what they want, and do the exact opposite.
And mark my words, they will get caught doing it.
And the best part is that there will be no consequences! :)
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?
I already cancelled. Fuck adobe. I’ll use Krita and Gimp.
Too late. I already canceled. FOSS is the future.
I’ve been using Krita for art and I really like it. The FOSS tools have been getting increasingly better and better, Blender, Godot, and Krita are the ones I’ve used recently and I love them so much.
Now I just want better FOSS video editing.
Kdenlive is acceptable for small video editing but I suppose you mean something up to the standard of Davinci Resolve or close
Yeah, the FOSS tools right now are usable but they’re nowhere near on the level of stuff like Blender.
I’m hoping that eventually the FOSS tools get on par or exceed commercial ones… though it’s going to take time.
Did some basic video editing in blender and was pleasantly surprised, did you give that a whirl?
I’ll have to look at it!
Fuck “update”. Fuck " clarify". Actually CHANGE.
That will solve the problem once and for all!
New terms. “All your base are belong to us!”
Clear enough for all of you? Bend a knee and giveth to the corporation!
So… What is it for, Adobe?
Whoops that was phase 2 not phase 1, we update to that later /s
Didn’t the new TOS also contain an AUP for any user generated content?
Ahh shit they noticed now lets roll back nice and slow see how far we can take it
