Adobe’s new generative AI tools are here — and they really, really, pretty please doesn’t want you to use them to make porn, okay?
And this is why software should always be offline and installed from media. My copy of Photoshop 6(CS1) doesn’t care what I do with it, it’s software that does a job. I’ve tried updated CS versions of Photoshop thanks to friends and other means, and frankly? CS1 does all of what I need or want, and very little of what I don’t.
Working with software not installed and accessible on an airgapped offline machine is a bad idea.
Guess what the CC in Adobe stands for, yes it’s “you don’t own anything”.
This feels like a plausible deniability thing so when the creeps inevitably start cranking gross, illegal stuff they can shrug and say, “well we tried.”
I was curious how Adobe was going to monitor/enforce this. In the article:
And again, outside of hitting users with an ever-classic “pretty please,” it’s unclear how Adobe actually plans to police this kind of material.
Basically, they can’t. Maybe if someone was reported, their account can be deleted for violating a TOS. I feel like this is just an adobe CYA in the event someone creates nude photoshoot of a celebrity, so Adobe cannot be held responsible.
Since adobe firefly doesn’t run locally, they could just implement a classifier/tokenizer that looks at the image and gives it a “nudity” rating where if it is rated too high the service could refuse to send the generated image to the user along with logging the attempt.
That’s expensive enough software they’d have to be damn careful about false positives that mess with actual productivity because it happened to include a lot of skintones. Seems like they’d either need an appeal process with a quick response time or deal with pissing off legitimate users with the occasional hiccup.
I can’t wait for someone to get banned for drawing a tan couch.
“Sorry, those sand dunes look a bit buttcrackish.”
Don’t be surprised if this is exactly what ends up happening. These huge companies with near 100% professional market captivity feel like they can do whatever the fuck they want and you’ll just have to suck it up and deal with it. And most of the time they’re right.
We all want a nude Tayne.
Why not, honestly?
