AI Training Promise
Adobe also has used the launch to emphasize that it doesn’t train its AI models on customer data. The company published this promise in June last year when a mandatory terms of service update suggested that Adobe would be able to automatically access user content.
The response from users was fast and furious, which prompted the publishing of a blog post. In this, the company wrote: “We’ve never trained generative AI on customer content, taken ownership of a customer’s work, or allowed access to customer content beyond legal requirements. Nor were we considering any of those practices as part of the recent Terms of Use update.”
In this announcement for its new tools, Adobe has repeated this, adding that it also prohibits third-party LLMs from training on Adobe customer data.
Training data remains a contentious issue in AI development with OpenAI and Microsoft among the big names in the frame for data scrapping. While companies are keen to come out and shout that they are not harvesting their users’ data, LLMs do need data to train on, raising the question of where this data is coming from.
