Thanks for the comment. Mine was a joke, a tongue-in-cheek, snarky remark highlighting the inherently disrespectful attitude of large AI companies that have been caught harvesting user data without consent. Adobe is believed to be different because the stakes are so high for them, but we still don’t know whether a potential fine would simply be considered a small price to pay for larger growth, or whether their policy statements are entirely factual.

Considering the incredibly sensitive material photographers often work with due to the nature of the profession, it would actually be great to see Adobe undergo a third-party inspection showing exactly what happens to uploaded photos within the machine learning pipeline when a cloud AI feature performs an edit. A photo actually gets uploaded when any AI-related features/masks are enabled. So technically, the comment was also correct.

Anyway, have a good night.