The crazy thing about #Adobe is that their terms of service and overall practices surrounding #AI are actually about as good as it gets in terms of big software companies.
Basically every other big tech company from Google to X to Meta are actually confirmed to be training AI models on whatever you post on their platforms. Adobe, for now, trains models on royalty-free data and data they actually bought a license to.
NOT handing it to Adobe just pointing out we're fucked if that's the bar
While #Adobe is doing an absolute stupid with their new licensing terms, and (now Canva-owned) #Affinity slashes prices by half in a "flash sale", I am once again asking people to consider supporting #FLOSS tools instead.
Yes, they are far from perfect.
But with a small fraction of what these closed source vendors are raking in, these tools could be made immeasurably better.
And they won't end up bought up and enshittified, as experience with past attempts at doing that to FLOSS tools shows.
@rysiek While I agree with the sentiment, I’ve tried again and again for over twenty-five years to use FLOSS photography apps they’re generally outright unusable for me
No doubt they work for other people but Gimp, Darktable, and every tool for photography I’ve tried is just UI hell for me, even when they have the actual functionality (which is rare). Even the ones that are somewhat learnable (they’re never actually usable) tend to break on HiDPI screens
This is a friendly warning and reminder that if you had started looking on ways to move away from #Microsoft and/or #Adobe for their latest shenanigans, do NOT stop now. Make the effort to move away NOW if at all possible even if they pretend to have backtracked. Because WHEN (not IF, but WHEN) they'll pull the same shit again, it will be HARDER, not EASIER, to get out of their prison.
I don’t know, around 2002 it was only a bit behind, well outside of the weird ui and since then not much has changed. Back then I felt that they were quite interchangeable.
This isn’t binding tho, Adobe could change their minds in a year and then legally train an AI on all the data they’ve collected. Their own blog post doesn’t even preclude that, their AI language is present tense. In addition they could just license the data to other AI companies.
I of course used to use #Adobe big time in my early web days. Once they went subscription, I did annual for a few years then dropped them for Pixelmator Pro (a #MacOs app that I paid a one-time fee for, but paid to update later).
»Adobe will Zugriff auf Inhalte von Photoshop-Usern:
Der Konzern hat seine Nutzungsbedingungen aktualisiert. Wer zustimmt, gibt dem Unternehmen das Recht, auf seine Daten zuzugreifen.«
Ich empfehle und nutze schon länger @krita, @GIMP, @inkscape, @Blender und/oder @penpot aber ich bin ja kein Grafikprofi. Abgesehen davon wird selten zugegeben, dass die Fixierung auf einen Hersteller nicht unbedingt professionell ist.
@kubikpixel Was #Adobe da macht ist nicht akzeptabel. Trotzdem werden es alle Idioten vermutlich schlucken. Warum Apple Software SpyWare sein soll, kann ich allerdings nicht im Ansatz nachvollziehen / nachempfinden.
🧵 …ich hatte weiter oben unter anderem auf @penpot hingewiesen. Um deren infos so wie dessen Einsatz zu lernen, folgt doch deren Videos Account im Fediverse auf @peertube und/oder deren Kanäle der einzelnen Sparten. Somit wird es sicherlich auch ein professionell nutzbare Photoshop Alternative für euch bei der Gestaltung von Webseiten.
Whilst I find the whining of #Windows and #Adobe users about privacy infringing changes mildly annoying (We've been telling you for 20+ years that tying yourself to multi-billion-dollar corporations was a bad idea, but most of you actively chose that anyway), this might be the final push for public institutions and companies to demand open standards and formats in order to award contracts.
The tricky thing about being a company that I don't trust is that even when you try to clarify something you need to be aware that specificity can sound suss.
"Adobe does not train Firefly Gen AI models on customer content."
The way this is worded does not say your content is not used in training AI models, just that it's - SPECIFICALLY - not used to train "Firefly Gen AI models."
Just say, "Adobe does not train AI models on customer content,"
But now it's like, oh hey, maybe they've trained their Podcast Enhance audio model on user audio files. Maybe they've trained their colour matching or re framing models on user edits.
Oh - and of course, "Adobe will never assume ownership of a customer's work"
So you grant yourself the mother of all licenses, effectively giving you all the perks of ownership, but hey, you won't 'assume ownership' as a technicality. Well great.