Mastodawn

Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

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It's too bad Adobe is alienating some of their most influential customers like this. What do they gain? A reputation for stupidity (failure to understand customers, customer needs; treating all the same, 'one size fits all" & all that) & evil (do the worst that will offend the most by default). It's not as if there's that much 'customer loyalty' left in the bag... & equivalent or better s/w exists In many cases (hello Affinity!). You have to hope Adobe will get better advice/ advisors at some stage. But don't hold your breath. 😐

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Vassil Nikolov 6d ago

> What do they gain?

One possibility is a feeling they have jumped on the right bandwagon, illusory though it may be.

@Su_G @fifonetworks