Frankly speaking, Adobe’s decision to triple down on AI, while absolutely despicable for many Digital Artists, was seen from miles away and evident to those who witnessed the massive controversy the company faced in June.
Back then, the community lambasted the developer for changes to its General Terms of Use, which required users of Adobe products to allow the company to access and view their creations through both automated and manual methods, and even analyze their work using techniques such as machine learning.
This led many to believe that the company planned to use all user-generated content to train its AI models, and even though Adobe has since clarified that they don’t intend to do that, the belief can hardly be described as unfounded, considering that the developer is now disregarding the anti-AI sentiment of many creators in order to keep biggering on its artificial thneeds.