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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

… anymore*

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I know adobe has particularly smooth brained execs but this seemed like a blatantly obvious bad idea. Adobe software is used by every big company and they do not have the resources to field five thousand lawsuits from everyone in the Fortune 500 simultaneously

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"We have never trained generative AI on our customer’s content, we have never taken ownership of a customer’s work, and we have never allowed access to customer content beyond what’s legally required,” Wadhwani said to The Verge.

" yet..."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

It's not even completely true. They did train their AI on Adobe Stock, which is royalty free, but is by definition customer content.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Holy shit. Thank you (and the author) so much for avoiding yellow/red/green icons. This is colorblind friendly!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Very nice list, thanks for sharing. I hadn't heard of a lot of these.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I had them for a long time and they treated me like shit before the AI. I moved on a long time ago. Fuck you?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Was that the concern, though? I thought the controversy was that they intended to moderate people's projects. Or did they walk that back too once they renounced the reason for that policy (I.e., training AI)?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

That they would/could access my work for any reason whatsoever… that they even have that ability, that’s not just a line in the sand for me, it’s the Grand Canyon. I expect any kind of cloud storage to be private and protected (e.g. encrypted at rest)… no back doors, no exceptions.

This is beyond the pale, and AI was never part of the concern.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That was also a concern, it's both.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Yeesh, they really dove into that with both feet eh?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We pwomise we're swawwy 🥺👉👈

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Yeah, basically this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

People realized alternatives exist?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Affinity suite (designer, photo, and publisher) are pro level, pay to own, and much less expensive

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Serif/Affinity got bought out by a pump'n'dump subscription company. We'll see if things hold true moving forward...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Thanks, I will check them out!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

GIMP can handle a lot of cases for PDFs. For more complicated cases, I would recommend Scribus.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Libreoffice Draw also works well for PDFs.