The artist web community is increasingly fearful of AI-powered art creation tools. According to some, Adobe could track creatives using its software to study behavior to feed its own artificial intelligence.
The tools for creating images from text made possible by artificial intelligence have been very successful for several months on the Internet and above all they are multiplying: DALL-E 2, Midjourney, etc. Tech giants are also on the move, like Meta, which manages to create videos from text. For its part, OpenAI, well known for ChatGPT, is developing an AI capable of generating 3D models.
To work, this software needs a lot of data, beyond the complexity of development or computing power, it is the nerve of war for developers. Currently, automatic image generation tools are based on… the Internet, full of artistic works. But this is not necessarily done with the consent of the creators and some automatically created images have been reported for plagiarism on social networks. The media fast company reports that several artists accuse Adobe of stalking their creative process to train their artificial intelligence. An accusation denied by Adobe.
An option enabled by default in Creative Cloud that allows Adobe to use your users’ data
A few days ago, comic book author Claire Wendling posted a screenshot of Adobe’s personal data and privacy settings on Instagram. She indicates that “Adobe may analyze your content using techniques such as machine learning. […] to develop and improve its products and services“. A setting enabled by default that allows Adobe to analyze user content.for product improvement purposes“. Such a parameter exists in many other software and online services.
The fear shared by many artists, especially on Twitter, is that Adobe’s suite of software ” track the artists who use their applications to see how they work, that is, they steal the processes and actions that graphic designers have developed over decades of work to exploit in their own automated systems“, resumefast company. In other words, they fear that their complex artistic processes could be studied by artificial intelligence, which could then automate them. Something to replace your job one day.
Adobe says it doesn’t use user data to develop AI
An Adobe spokesperson said that the company does not use customer information:Adobe does not use any data stored in customers’ Creative Cloud accounts to train its experimental generative AI features.“. In addition to this, Adobe says it is reviewing its policy “to better define generative AI use cases“. However, the service’s FAQ states that “Adobe may analyze your Creative Cloud or Document Cloud content to provide product functionality and to improve and develop our products and services.“. This includes all files stored on Adobe’s servers.
However, we found out later that “None of your content is included in our products or services unless you make it public. […] The information obtained through content analysis is not used to recreate your content or to identify any personal information.“. Furthermore, according to Michael Velea, a professor at University College London specializing in digital rights,In accordance with European privacy law, Adobe must obtain user consent before reading data from people’s devices for purposes that are not necessary for the service requested by the user.He adds that some creative professionals may have signed non-disclosure agreements with clients: Adobe’s setting, being enabled by default, could raise legal issues there.
A bigger sense of fear than the Adobe question
As notedfast companythe “The fear that design processes will be tracked by technology and then used to train artificial intelligence is part of a broader concern about how generative AI applications treat artists.».
Midjourney, for example, hasn’t asked permission from the artists it has.”aspiratethe works to be able to do so, which has been denounced by the artist communities. Some also havecreated tools for their colleagues to opt out of using their jobs to train AI“. This use would violate the intellectual property rights and privacy of millions of creators. In addition, the European Union is questioning the legality of automatically generated AI tools, from a data protection point of view.
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