Adobe Firefly trained on rival AI images, conflicting with ethics claims
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Adobe's AI image generator Firefly was reportedly trained partially on AI images from competitors like Midjourney. This goes against Adobe's claims that Firefly used only commercially safe, licensed data.
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Some artists submitted AI images to Adobe Stock to get compensation, without specifying which AI platform generated them. So Firefly may have indirectly used images from Midjourney and others.
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There was an internal clash at Adobe over the ethics of using rival AI images to train Firefly, even in early stages.
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57 million AI images are labeled as such in Adobe Stock, 14% of the total. Adobe says only 5% of images used to train Firefly were from rival AI platforms.
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The pressure to find training data for AI models has intensified. Other companies like OpenAI and Google have also reportedly scraped sites like YouTube for data.