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November 24, 2023
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Was Adobe FireFly Trained on AI Stock Photos from Adobe Stock?

  • November 24, 2023
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I had a question about whether or not Adobe firefly really is commercially safe.

 

I ask this because Adobe says that firefly is trained on the Adobe Stock photo library which they say is why it is commercially safe. But I also read, that Adobe lets people add AI generated photos to their Adobe stock library.

 

So does that mean that Adobe FireFly was actually trained on third-party AI photos that come from other AI generators like Dall-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion? Since these AI generators have used photos without license or permission, their generated photos are not entirely "commercially safe".

 

Or is it that Adobe trained FireFly on non AI generated images? If someone from Adobe could confirm this question it would be really helpful, because if Adobe trained FireFly on third party AI images, FireFly was trained on images that people didn't give their explicit permission for, which in a way makes it not commercially safe and in gray area just like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.

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CMass
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Community Manager
December 1, 2023

The current Firefly generative AI model is trained on a dataset of Adobe Stock along with openly licensed work and public domain content where copyright has expired. This set may include images generated by AI.

Kyle_90Author
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December 2, 2023

What I'm saying is, how is Adobe FireFly commercially different than Stable Diffusion or DALL-E if Adobe FireFly is trained on AI images generated from those models? And why does Adobe prohibit companies from trianing AI models on images generated by Adobe FireFly, but Adobe trains it's AI model on other compies AI images?

Kyle_90Author
Known Participant
November 29, 2023

To anyone planning on using Adobe FireFly for commercial purposes, I wouldn't, until an Adobe employee can answer this question.

 

Because if Adobe FireFly was trained on third party AI generated images from Adobe Stock, with Stable Diffusion and Dall-E, that means it was trained on third party copyright infringement. And Adobe FireFly is not technically not commercially safe.