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You may have seen rumors recently about Adobe stealing content from creators and using it to train their stable of applications and/or for other reasons. To address these unsubstantiated claims, Adobe sent a notification via the Creative Cloud dashboard that explains Adobe that does NOT steal your images to train Firefly, their robust AI engine, or for any other purpose.

Essentially the same information is also posted on Adobe's website. Additionally, you can read Adobe's Firefly Policy here. For complete details, read Adobe's General Terms of Use.

Here, verbatim, are the points Adobe calls out in their Firefly Policy. Many of the points have dropdown menus that offer additional information. To read it, visit the URL shown above.

"We do not and have never trained Adobe Firefly on customer content.

"We only train Adobe Firefly on content where we have permission to do so.

"We compensate creators who contribute to Adobe Stock for the use of their content in training Adobe Firefly.

"We do not mine content from the web to train Adobe Firefly.

"We developed Adobe Firefly to prevent it from creating content that infringes copyright or intellectual property rights, and it is designed to be commercially safe.

"We do not claim any ownership of your content, including content you create with Adobe Firefly."

"We believe in protecting creators’ rights and founded the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) focused on ensuring transparency in content ownership and how it was created.

"We defend the intellectual property rights of the creative community through advocating for the Federal Anti-Impersonation Right Act.

"We explicitly prohibit third parties from training on customer content hosted on our servers (such as on Behance)."

Further, Adobe invites users questions by adding, "If you have any questions, or just want to hang out and chat, you can join us on Discord or the Adobe Community forums."

Adobe is a founding member of the Content Authenticity Initiative. CAI is dedicated to restoring trust and transparency in the age of AI.

∞ Shutterbug Staff