Adobe has promised to update its terms of service to make it “abundantly clear” that the company will “never” train generative AI on creators’ content after days of customer backlash, with some saying they would cancel Adobe subscriptions over its vague terms.
Users got upset last week when an Adobe pop-up informed them of updates to terms of use that seemed to give Adobe broad permissions to access user content, take ownership of that content, or train AI on that content. The pop-up forced users to agree to these terms to access Adobe apps, disrupting access to creatives’ projects unless they immediately accepted them.
For any users unwilling to accept, canceling annual plans could trigger fees amounting to 50 percent of their remaining subscription cost. Adobe justifies collecting these fees because a “yearly subscription comes with a significant discount.”
“canceling annual plans could trigger fees amounting to 50 percent of their remaining subscription cost” You cannot unilaterally change the T&Cs without an option to opt out of the new conditions, but still insist on the old T&C terms. WTF is wrong with Adobe, are they stupid?
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Too late. I already canceled. FOSS is the future.
The problem isn’t the clarity of the terms.
The problem is that we all know they are lying and don’t believe a word they say.
“We are sorry you noticed, we didn’t think anyone would read all that.” -Adobe, probably
Stop threatening, and just cancel already.
What happened to the vigor of society’s cancel culture? Why are we not canceling corporate abuse like this? Or Microsoft’s? Or Google’s? Or Amazon’s? Did we forget about cancel culture? Or are we just fine with being pawns in their dystopian capitalist games? Cancel culture had the potential to make real change, and we allowed corporations to cancel cancel culture for their capital gains.
There’s big client companies that have already cut them off, and they won’t bother coming back for the same price and unsubstantiated changes, Adobe is changing this now because they are now bleeding.
Hopefully they’ll hemorrhage. One giant must fall, for the rest to relearn their place.
I don’t think the problem was only with what they would do with the content but that they would have access to it in the first place.
Its photo editing software, not a surveillance platform, wtf?
I already cancelled. Fuck adobe. I’ll use Krita and Gimp.
All these companies are really testing how much you can erode customer trust. Let’s see how that plays out.
They’ve set the board, and are betting they’re too big to fail and that enough choice has been eliminated consumers won’t have viable options.
Your move America.
Americans too wrapped up in shiny AI hype
-signed American citizen
