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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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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

So... What is it for, Adobe?

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

That will solve the problem once and for all!

[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hahaha these asswipes can write what they want, and do the exact opposite.

And mark my words, they will get caught doing it.

[–] christophski@feddit.uk 0 points 5 months ago

And the best part is that there will be no consequences! :)

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

New terms. "All your base are belong to us!"

Clear enough for all of you? Bend a knee and giveth to the corporation!

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 0 points 5 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?

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 0 points 5 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.

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

"We are sorry you noticed, we didn't think anyone would read all that." -Adobe, probably

[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Ahh shit they noticed now lets roll back nice and slow see how far we can take it

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All these companies are really testing how much you can erode customer trust. Let's see how that plays out.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] rogue_scholar@eviltoast.org 0 points 5 months ago

Didn't the new TOS also contain an AUP for any user generated content?

[–] Zeke@fedia.io 0 points 5 months ago

I already cancelled. Fuck adobe. I'll use Krita and Gimp.

[–] noxy@yiffit.net 0 points 5 months ago

Fuck "update". Fuck " clarify". Actually CHANGE.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

Whoops that was phase 2 not phase 1, we update to that later /s

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Merely threaten .. ball-less cowards.

They will remain owned, then, possessed-carrion, instead of owning their own autonomy..

The frog in the slowly-heating-pot is us.

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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Stop threatening, and just cancel already.

What happened to the vigor of society's cancel culture? Why are we not canceling corporate abuse like this? Or Microsoft's? Or Google's? Or Amazon's? Did we forget about cancel culture? Or are we just fine with being pawns in their dystopian capitalist games? Cancel culture had the potential to make real change, and we allowed corporations to cancel cancel culture for their capital gains.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I like to think the large corporations, specifically the social media giants, purposefully did everything in their power to water down the term through algorithm manipulation to ensure cancel culture or anything like it is ridiculed to the point that everyone becomes apathetic about it since it now applies to anyone/thing you don't like.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 0 points 5 months ago

I'm convinced they did exactly that :/

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There's big client companies that have already cut them off, and they won't bother coming back for the same price and unsubstantiated changes, Adobe is changing this now because they are now bleeding.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 0 points 5 months ago

Hopefully they'll hemorrhage. One giant must fall, for the rest to relearn their place.

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Too late. I already canceled. FOSS is the future.

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] thadah@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Kdenlive is acceptable for small video editing but I suppose you mean something up to the standard of Davinci Resolve or close

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did some basic video editing in blender and was pleasantly surprised, did you give that a whirl?

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

I'll have to look at it!

[–] r_deckard@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"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?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 0 points 5 months ago