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Adobe's 'Ethical' Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images

Company promotes its tool as safe from content scraped from the
internet.

Adobe's decision to build Firefly with content the company holds the
rights to, or public domain content, was meant to differentiate
Firefly in the fast-growing market for generative artificial
intelligence.

Adobe's decision to build Firefly with content the company holds the
rights to, or public domain content, was meant to differentiate
Firefly in the fast-growing market for generative artificial
intelligence.

Photographer: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images)

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By Rachel Metz and Brody Ford
April 12, 2024 at 8:30 AM EDT
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When Adobe Inc. released its Firefly image-generating software last
year, the company said the artificial intelligence model was trained
mainly on Adobe Stock, its database of hundreds of millions of
licensed images. Firefly, Adobe said, was a "commercially safe"
alternative to competitors like Midjourney, which learned by scraping
pictures from across the internet.

But behind the scenes, Adobe also was relying in part on AI-generated
content to train Firefly, including from those same AI rivals. In
numerous presentations and public posts about how Firefly is safer
than the competition due to its training data, Adobe never made clear
that its model actually used images from some of these same
competitors.

 
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