Project security

[KenAmentum]

When I use any of the Firefly enabled services in Photoshop or Illustrator is my project being uploaded to Adobe servers? If so how does Adobe protect my data? If I don't have an internet connection do these services work and if no do the applications still function without those tools?

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

Hi @KenAmentum your files are not stored by Adobe. Read this article: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2023/03/21/responsible-innovation-age-of-generative-ai

If you do not have an internet connection, many functions in Photoshop will not work including any AI related processes.

[KenAmentum]

Thank you for pointing me to that article. I appreciate the insight. This does not quite answer my question though.

For a hypothetical question I have a picture of a bank vault but I am super squeezed in because the camera can only get so much of the view with its wide angle. I want to expand that room so I use the FireFly features in Photoshop to expand that image. Now this image cannot be shared with anyone but the bank client for security. Does running the generative fill in Photoshop cause the base image to be uploaded to a server?

Here is a hypothetical for AI features in Illustrator. I have a data graph that I would like to see how the bars and pie charts look in different color themes. This data is company protected data and is for in house use only. When I recolorize does the inital image get sent to Adobe servers? If so how long does it stay there?

Maybe I am understanding the technology incorrectly. I looking for clarification of what goes on in the process of creating new altered work.

[D Fosse]

They say the images are deleted when sent back. But it's ultimately your own responsibility to make sure confidential data don't get spread. I'm sorry, I don't want to sound dismissive - but those example don't convince me. For sensitive images, you obviously don't send them out from your machine, to anyone anywhere. End of story.

The hypothetical bank vault seems like an important job for which you'd make adequate preparations. In a pinch, the least you could do is shoot a moderate three-frame pano.

For the graph, you make a dummy until you decide.

[Lumigraphics]

https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html#questions-concerns

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

No.

https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/legal/servicetou/Adobe-Generative-AI-Additional-Terms...

Files are uploaded and returned with results not stored.

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

@KenAmentum your hypothetical brings up a lot more concerns than AI. Banking institutions and government clients have some of the strictest IT security I know of. Connecting to cloud services as a general practice is blocked at the domain/IP/port level to prevent file sharing outside the company.

I doubt AI would be a consideration for those types of clients, but since this is a hypothetical scenario, I digress.