By MIT Technology Review
Published on March 26, 2024
Since the beginning of the generative Al boom, there has been a fight over how large Al models are trained.
In one camp sit tech companies such as OpenAI that have claimed it is “impossible” to train AI without hoovering the internet of copyrighted data. And in the other camp are artists who argue that AI companies have taken their intellectual property without consent and compensation.
Adobe is pretty unusual in that it sides with the latter group, with an approach that stands out as an example of how generative Al products can be built without scraping copyrighted data from the internet. Adobe released its image-generating model Firefly. which is integrated into its popular photo editing tool Photoshop, one year ago.