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March 4, 2025
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Subscription without GenAI features

  • March 4, 2025
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For the people who find GenAI tools buggy or cumbersome, and know the difference between AI via algorithms like object select etc., it might be nice to have a version of the Adobe subscription without Generative AI credits or features/tools - at a discount. The energy cost is a factor, but also, GenAI is reportedly still largely unprofitable in most cases based on the cost of energy and cooling required for processing and training. And that's likely a factor in justifying our subscriptions continuing to hike up in price (it's not like we don't get a cost breakdown to see what money is going where). 

 

If you're a user not into the GenAI features, especially for ethical reasons, why should you shoulder some of that cost for others? I'm all for mutually beneficial things like debugging, but again - for ethical design reasons.

 

And if you aren't using the features, your files should definitely be automatically opted out from any model training, in case they try to put that into terms & conditions in the future. 

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DavidBaxter
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Adobe Employee
March 4, 2025

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Dave