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are you even listening to yourself? if they don't need it for some kind of research or ai training then they shouldn't need it at all!!? why you guys are always simping for corporations blatant and disgusting privacy violations is beyond me. do you have curtains and a front door on your house and if so why? are you a criminal or something?
Yep, lots of people like this recently with similar situations. Sick of people normalizing getting screwed because "they have nothing to hide or its just the way it is so get used to it".
Not quite, the new Adobe versions do some generative AI work and that AI is hosted in their Adobe creative cloud datacenter’s. So they need the permissions to functionally send the data to the datacenter to do the work you’ve requested to display it on the screen.
No one thought that meant Adobe will now be the copyrights owner here, the last sentence:
Leaving the door open isn't quite the same as actively doing it, though, and Adobe explicitly stated in a follow-up that its generative AI isn't training on user content.
It's not a nothingburger if you are a freelancer and if your clients are concerned or worse.
1. Holding a gun to your head doesn't mean I'm going to shoot you, so you should be comfortable with it!
I haven’t installed my copy of adobe sw in a while. I’m sure they have probably disabled my license key and the server that validates it to get me to “upgrade” to creative cloud or whatever they are calling it now
I'd like to know when they broke Acrobat Reader so that saving changes to a PDF with an embedded form I filled out causes it to do a save as instead. Jerks.
I get your point, but at the same time, this kind of snafu has happened often enough for long enough that they should know better to leave the interpretation open. A few paragraphs about how "none of this means we're going to scan every file you have for any nefarious purposes" etc., specifically including the mention above about how they need to have that permission to process AI stuff on their own servers, could've prevented this.
I was under the impression that was functioning as intended as you rarely want to save over the original of a fillable form. But yeah that’s an annoyance for sure.
Huh. Well, maybe so. This particular form was something I have to fill out regularly, so I make a copy, rename the copy to add the current date to the filename, then fill in the form and hit File | Save. The workflow is just a bit annoying. Once I tell it yeah, I want to save it as the filename it already has, if I save it a second time, that works like normal.
If you're a professional then you'll keep using Adobe products. You're also unlikely to stop using them because nobody wants to relearn how to use an application. I use Photoshop casually and as a Linux user I'm fine with CS6. Even I can't spend the time to learn to use something like Krita. I hear Affinity Photo is a good alternative, and there's Photopea but it's an online version of CS6, so not something a professional would use. This is the problem with TOU in that it can change and there's nothing really you can do about it.
As ToU stands it's still not good. Adobe is still profiting off you in a way that it shouldn't be able to. Lets drop the argument over training AI and content and just "assume" they are an upstanding company that never would do something like suck up all your content to train AI
. The ToS still says they can suck up all your techniques and procedures on how you modify your content since that is strictly functional aspects of the program. So if you found a neat way to do some effect, by some combination of procedures, they can steal it and make it part of the program without acknowledging you, asking your consent, or paying you. Once upon a time, you could make a plugin or script and could even sell it, but under the current ToS, Adobe can literally steal it and add it as a new feature since you allow them to by just using the program. The whole cloud thing is the biggest con of the century. You pay them to use the software and they spy on you to see how you use the program, then they can steal your techniques and make them into new one button push scripts so all users can do it thus shitting on your time, effort, and marketability as an artist. Adobe no longer even has to hire artists to help them make improvements to the software they have their user base do it for them and have users pay them to do it.
The problem is that you can't even unsubscribe from the service without consenting to the new terms. But I don't think it is illegal per se. You'd have to sue them in almost all countries to get your way and hope they don't pay off the judge, or the judge isn't a corporate shill to begin with.
That is indeed beyond insane. I'll probably be switching to Affinity products when my annual subscription expires.
