https://borncity.com/win/2024/03/23/stop-disable-the-scanning-of-documents-by-adobe-ai-solutions/ Born's Tech and Windows World Android, Linux, iOS, Windows, Gagdets and more Geek stuff Born's Tech and Windows World Skip to content * Home * About this Blog * Advertise on this blog * Privacy statement * Win10 Wiki - Windows Server: Fix for (Kerberos) LSASS memory leak through March 2024 updates Bug in "Kerberos Configuration Manager for SQL Server" (March 2024) - Stop: Disable the scanning of documents by Adobe AI solutions! Posted on 2024-03-23 by guenni Stop - Pixabay[German]Adobe has begun to introduce its own AI solutions in its products. There is a risk that Adobe products will begin to scan all documents in companies in order to obtain data for training the AI solutions. Administrators should therefore take immediate action to prevent this scanning. There seems to be a solution for Windows, but I am not aware of anything similar for macOS and other operating systems. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Advertising --------------------------------------------------------------------- *Blog reader Mark Heitbrink pointed this out to me on Friday (thanks for that) - there's been a lot going on here this week. Mark pointed me to the reddit.com post Turning off Adobe's ability to scan all of your organization's documents for generative A, which addresses the topic. Adobe scans documents for AI solutions Many administrators may have Adobe products in their inventory (especially Adobe Acrobat is used pretty much everywhere in organizations). Brian Krebs recently pointed out the problem (see screenshot) that Adobe Acrobat by default scans all documents that are entered into Adobe Acrobat and Reader. Adobe AI-Dokument-Scan In the document, Adobe informs its users about new generative AI features in Adobe Acrobat. It states that Adobe will introduce a beta version of these features in Acrobat starting February 20, 2024. The AI Assistant feature uses AI technology to understand users' questions and provide answers based on the content of your PDF file, it says. The generative summary uses AI technology to provide an overview of the organization and content of the document. Adobe described the whole thing in this document on February 24, 2024. According to Adobe, the introduction of the beta version of the generative AI features for Teams customers will be gradual. It will start with customers who have activated the new "Acrobat experience". Adobe writes that it expects the features to be rolled out to all eligible Teams customers in the coming months. In other words, as soon as a user opens a document in an Adobe Acrobat/Reader, its content will be captured using the AI feature. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Advertising --------------------------------------------------------------------- Deactivate the scan Instead of offering an opt-in for users, Adobe relies on an opt-out and automatically activates the document scanning function in Adobe Reader/Acrobat. Adobe states that users can deactivate these functions individually. Administrators also have the option of deactivating these AI scans for the entire organization. Adobe has published the support article Turn off the generative AI features, which describes how a user can deactivate the option in question. Administrators under Windows have the option of disabling this feature globally for a machine in the registry branch: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\FeatureLockDown Just add a 32-Bit-DWORD value bEnableGentech, as the user wrote on reddit.com. I assume that the DWORD value must be set to 0 to disable the scan, while 1 enables this AI scan. # Adobe AI in Windows blocken $Path = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\FeatureLockDown' if (!(Test-Path $Path)) { $null = New-Item $Path -Force -ErrorAction Stop } New-ItemProperty $Path -Name bEnableGentech -PropertyType Dword -Value 0 -Force The above PowerShell instructions from the reddit.com thread should check whether the key is present and, if necessary, set the value so that no AI scan is performed on the machine. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Cookies helps to fund this blog: Cookie settings Advertising [INS::INS] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ##1 This entry was posted in Security, Software and tagged Adobe, AI, issue, Security. 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