Is the Remove Tool trained on other images like generative fill?

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The generative fill tool takes images from the internet to work, which is why you have to be online for it to be used. Is this the same case with the remove tool (brush)? Because I want to claim full ownership of my work and I want to knwo if the remove tool learns from images scraped off the internet or if it just analyses or uses pixels from the surroundings of an image like content aware or the spot healing brush.

Conrad_C · Accepted Answer

I don't think you completely understood my message. I know the policy doesn't affect local files, but it does affect files stored in the creative cloud. If it didn't, all of the complaints wouldn't have been in the news and Adobe wouldn't have been interviewed about it.

I don't think you completely understood my message. I know the policy doesn't affect local files, but it does affect files stored in the creative cloud. If it didn't, all of the complaints wouldn't have been in the news and Adobe wouldn't have been interviewed about it.
By @Ryan26687105orh5

“Creative Cloud” includes a wide range of cloud services, such as Creative Cloud Libraries, Lightroom Photos, Adobe Document Cloud (Acrobat), etc.). They don’t all work the same.

c.pfaffenbichler’s post contains an Adobe quote saying AI training is on a much more constrained set, not the entire Creative Cloud:

Here’s what we don't do: We don’t scan or review content that is stored locally on your device. We also don’t train generative AI models on your or your customers’ content unless you’ve submitted the content to the Adobe Stock marketplace.«
https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html

What Adobe is saying is: If you did not upload anything to Adobe Stock for sale, and therefore you never agreed to Adobe Stock terms and compensation, they’re not training on it.

If you think about it, Adobe could not be successful if they were doing things as some YouTubers claim they are. Adobe depends on subscription revenue from many very large companies and organizations who aggressively defend their intellectual property with armies of lawyers. They would simply never allow that kind of re-use of proprietary company data. But if Adobe is apparently not being challenged by the legal armies of big business, it might be safe to assume that those lawyers have not found anything to be sufficiently concerned about. YouTubers are not lawyers. (I’m not a lawyer either, though.)

c.pfaffenbichler · Answer

The generative fill tool takes images from the internet to work, which is why you have to be online for it to be used.

The first part of the sentence seems kind of misinterpretative and the second one kind of wrong.

1) Firefly has not been trained on images on the web willy-nilly (as other generative AI might have), instead Adobe took a fairly cautious approach to copyright.

2) The actual generation happens on Adobe servers, so the issue is not that Firefly is looking up images ad hoc, but that Adobe does not disperse the whole model to every user – I assume for size reasons and to protect their IP.

Edit:

I cannot provide a link about that currently, but if I remember correctly the Remove Tool uses a smaller (probably also older) model locally, but also utilizes generative AI.

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