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Adobe to update vague AI terms after users threaten to cancel subscriptions (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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."

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Hopefully they'll hemorrhage. One giant must fall, for the rest to relearn their place.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I like to think the large corporations, specifically the social media giants, purposefully did everything in their power to water down the term through algorithm manipulation to ensure cancel culture or anything like it is ridiculed to the point that everyone becomes apathetic about it since it now applies to anyone/thing you don't like.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I'm convinced they did exactly that :/