Baldur BjarnasonJan 4, 2023

Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

Show threadGina C. PietersJan 4, 2023
@baldur @pluralistic This nature of ownership of the data being used to train AI models, and the ownership of the subsequent AI value, is going to be an interesting realm for lawyers in a few years.
Show threadtolortslubor

@profpieters @baldur @pluralistic I am curious how #Adobe can assert rights to someone’s copyrighted images, if they contracted with a designer who used an adobe product and didn’t click to opt out

#Copyright #IntellectualProperty #PrivateProperty

Jan 4, 2023 at 2:25pmWeb
Show threadKeith_RJan 4, 2023

@tolortslubor @profpieters @baldur @pluralistic

"I am curious how #Adobe can assert rights to someone’s copyrighted images"

They aren't.

"None of your content is included in our products or services unless you make them public (for example, contributions to Adobe Stock and Behance). The insights obtained through content analysis will not be used to re-create your content or lead to identifying any personal information. "

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/manage-account/using/machine-learning-faq.html

Show threadtolortsluborJan 4, 2023
@keithreeder @profpieters @baldur @pluralistic #Adobe is using customer images to train a data set it can exploit for commercial purposes. Normally, this requires a copyright license, or #FairUse exception. In this case, Adobe, like many corrupt corps, is attempting to get around this by claiming TOS and hoping no one reads or cares.