Adobe has promised to update its terms of service to make it “abundantly clear” that the company will “never” train generative AI on creators’ content after days of customer backlash, with some saying they would cancel Adobe subscriptions over its vague terms.
Users got upset last week when an Adobe pop-up informed them of updates to terms of use that seemed to give Adobe broad permissions to access user content, take ownership of that content, or train AI on that content. The pop-up forced users to agree to these terms to access Adobe apps, disrupting access to creatives’ projects unless they immediately accepted them.
For any users unwilling to accept, canceling annual plans could trigger fees amounting to 50 percent of their remaining subscription cost. Adobe justifies collecting these fees because a “yearly subscription comes with a significant discount.”
So… What is it for, Adobe?
New terms. “All your base are belong to us!”
Clear enough for all of you? Bend a knee and giveth to the corporation!
Hahaha these asswipes can write what they want, and do the exact opposite.
And mark my words, they will get caught doing it.
And the best part is that there will be no consequences! :)
I don’t think the problem was only with what they would do with the content but that they would have access to it in the first place.
Its photo editing software, not a surveillance platform, wtf?
Fuck “update”. Fuck " clarify". Actually CHANGE.
I already cancelled. Fuck adobe. I’ll use Krita and Gimp.
Ahh shit they noticed now lets roll back nice and slow see how far we can take it
Whoops that was phase 2 not phase 1, we update to that later /s
“canceling annual plans could trigger fees amounting to 50 percent of their remaining subscription cost” You cannot unilaterally change the T&Cs without an option to opt out of the new conditions, but still insist on the old T&C terms. WTF is wrong with Adobe, are they stupid?
Yes
Stop threatening, and just cancel already.
What happened to the vigor of society’s cancel culture? Why are we not canceling corporate abuse like this? Or Microsoft’s? Or Google’s? Or Amazon’s? Did we forget about cancel culture? Or are we just fine with being pawns in their dystopian capitalist games? Cancel culture had the potential to make real change, and we allowed corporations to cancel cancel culture for their capital gains.
There’s big client companies that have already cut them off, and they won’t bother coming back for the same price and unsubstantiated changes, Adobe is changing this now because they are now bleeding.
Hopefully they’ll hemorrhage. One giant must fall, for the rest to relearn their place.