Tomorrow on my usual Monday evening national network radio tech segment, I'll be discussing the absolute mess that #Adobe has gotten itself into over the last few days, as changes to their cloud terms of service triggered massive blowback against those terms in general. I've already seen this being referred to as the "Adobe Apocalypse". I'll also be discussing how these tie in with broader concerns about subscription models and firms taking user content for their AI models, etc.
In case you don't follow this stuff, many people in the creator community are apparently very upset at #Adobe, who has moved full steam into subscription cloud-based services with everything that implies.
It seems they recently asked users to accept some relatively minor changes in their terms of service, relating to content moderation, what content Adobe can view and use, legal requirements, etc.
I said these were minor changes and from what I've seen they seem to be that. But the problem is that this has attracted creators' attention to terms of service that most didn't read or understand fully before this, which is quite a nasty piece of work. Very typical of many cloud services today though. So the creator community is up in arms, with new YouTube videos on the topic seemingly popping up by the hour. An "explainer" that Adobe sent out to try calm things down appears to have just made things worse.
Talk about unforced errors. It's not just #Google.
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.
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 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.
🧵 …und immer noch wird Apple so wie Adobe als professionell und nicht als Spionage oder/und Ausnutzung angesehen. Vom Copyright und Co. sprechen wir hier noch gar nicht, denn dies ist so umgesetzt keine Freiheit.
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»Adobe's new terms of service unacceptably gives them access to all of your projects, for free«
@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.
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."
I don’t understand the outrage over #adobe’s EULA. The new terms are basic boilerplate. Anyone hosting content on the web has the same terms in their EULA.
Am I missing something? Or is this just another hoopla over nothing?
Czy ktoś tutaj korzysta z Adobe Ilustratora i może się wypowiedzieć, dlaczego ten program lubi zamulać? Co w nim ustawić by działał płynnie? Jest SSD, dużo RAM, nienajgorszy raczej procesor i wraz takie cyrki. Nie ja korzystam, ale nie znam tego softu na tyle, by go skonfigurować poprawnie.