Adobe Promises Not to Use Artists’ Work for AI Training; The Creative Community Remains Skeptically Amused
“Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced”
“Adobe’s new painting app, Fresco, just introduced a feature that uses AI to turn rough sketches into realistic works of art. It’s a powerful tool, but it’s also raising concerns among some artists that Adobe might use the art they create with Fresco to train the AI behind the feature, without their knowledge or consent.”
Welcome aboard the magical mystery tour of Adobe’s latest innovation, Fresco! This brilliant application has an astonishing feature using artificial intelligence to take your toddler-like squiggles and transform them into something resembling the Mona Lisa. However, hold that sigh of awe! The digital grapevine is rife with whispers of artists fretting over their work being co-opted for AI training, without even a thank-you note from Adobe.
Rest assured, the tech giant, dressed in shining metal and blinking lights, issued a calming statement to quell the rising tide of suspicion. That’s right folks, your masterpieces are safe! Adobe, like any knight in digital armor, promises not to use your artwork to sharpen their AI’s skills, unless you utterly decide to play godmother and wave the consent wand.
Despite this, the creative crowd has not taken a full sigh of relief – skepticism, it seems, is quite a sticky substance. They wonder why Adobe’s privacy policy reads like a spy novel, filled with twists and turns that could potentially “allow the use of customer content to improve the service.”
Such convenience for Adobe if it worked out, borrowing the creative labor of artists to better their own software – all while we create, upload, and share, blissfully unaware. But alas, Adobe insists they are not the art-thieving villains of this narrative. Our art remains our own, and no AI shall feast upon it – unless, of course, we invite the vampires in.
Yet, some questions linger ominously like an unresolved chord in a symphony. Why, for instance, does Adobe’s service-specific FAQ mysteriously miss setting the record straight about using customer art to refine their AI? It’s almost as comic as a children’s treasure hunt – except we’re adults and we’d rather not have our art be the treasure up for grabs.
In the grand scheme of things, it seems Adobe is faced with a real Gordian Knot. On one hand, they must assuage their being painted as the Shylock of the art world. On the other, the ever-increasing transparency demands of the digital age. Maybe, just maybe, it wouldn’t hurt to add a pinch of reassurance to their ambiguous language soup of ‘improving services.’
Take heart, dear artists, Adobe claims your masterpieces won’t be fed to the AI machine – and perhaps we’ll offer them the benefit of the doubt. After all, in the world of ones and zeroes, we are the humans, and it’s our world to draw.