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Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work

The company is trying to win back trust after last week’s backlash.

Adobe is overhauling the terms customers must agree to when using its apps in an effort to win back trust — and clarify that it won’t train AI on their work. The change, announced via a new blog post, comes after a week of backlash from users who feared that an update to Adobe’s terms of service would allow their work to be used for AI training. The company trained its own Firefly AI model on Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content, and public domain content to avoid some of the ethical concerns surrounding generative AI, but severalartists have found images that reference their work on Adobe’s stock platform — making it hard to trust the protections in place.

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