Adobe users are outraged over vague new policy's AI implications
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Resolve is not bad, but unfortunately it can be a bit overwhelming for a novice editor, and it has some other interesting quirks that can make it a less suitable choice depending on what you’re doing. Still, I would definitely recommend trying it over Premiere at this point.
https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-a...
> Solely for the purposes of operating or improving the Services and Software, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content. For example, we may sublicense our right to the Content to our service providers or to other users to allow the Services and Software to operate as intended, such as enabling you to share photos with others. Separately, section 4.6 (Feedback) below covers any Feedback that you provide to us.
If Adobe says, training an AI on subscriber content would improve Adobe service then IANAL but I think this section gives them the right and then said AI might leak creative content. Further since they can sublicense to say OpenAI, hell knows what happens to it once they do.
It was also that way since June 2015 except it just said "the Services" instead of "the Services and Software". It may go even farther back but archive.org only has it back to mid 2015.
> through both automated and manual methods ...
to how they access content and everyone immediately jumped to the conclusion that automated means LLM training.
Also if you are a creative business, most anyone you would want to hire will know Adobe tools. Very few will be familiar with gimp, inkscape, or command-line utilities.
- After Effects: Natron (https://natrongithub.github.io/) and Blender (https://www.blender.org/)
- Photoshop: Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher (https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/)
Most of the use I had for PS is now split between: Procreate (drawing, illustration, game assets), Figma/Penpot (wireframes, quick mockups, UI sketches etc...), Affinity (image processing, quick photo edits, batch processing, anything that doesn't fall into the categories mentioned earlier).
And perhaps a combination of https://cavalry.scenegroup.co and https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion could be After Effects alternatives. I haven't made the switch yet due to the number of AE plugins I own, but perhaps this most recent Adobe gaffe will do it for me.
> I haven't made the switch yet due to the number of AE plugins I own, but perhaps this most recent Adobe gaffe will do it for me.
Honestly, just give it a go. I was surprised how easy it was for me (with PS, AI etc).
This happened to me with savethechildren.org before they allowed for easy cancelation. In the past you would have needed to call to cancel.
This is solid as a convenience to the cardholder. When there's fraudulent activity and the card needs to be reissued with a new number, it's not as painful to update all of the subscription services. Most cardholders, most of the time, would prefer the impact to be as minimal as possible when issued a new card number.
Yup. Last time I installed an Adobe app on a Mac it refused to install unless I entered an administrator password (and didn't describe why that was necessary), and then made itself persistent so that the Creative Cloud background process restarted whenever I rebooted the computer. Ended up downloading KnockKnock to figure out how it was persisting itself: https://objective-see.org/products/knockknock.html
It's been a while since I used it.
Most of the time when mac installers require an admin password, it's due to a combination of incompetence and malice.
Very frequently I will just unpack installer bundles by hand and drag things where they need to go. No admin password required, and when it is actually required for some functionality, it's usually something really stupid that could have been done differently. E.g. a common one is to install a startup item that boots a background task when you start your computer, but they could just as easily have booted the background task when you launched the app.
And if the maintainer says "aight, I need to pay the bills somehow", everyone gets offended because "that's not open-source" and "how dare you ask us for money". The end result is that companies that pay well attract the best talent, and open-source devs end up being discouraged, with little motivation to improve the software.
Adobe is just one example. I hate them with all my guts, but as long as people are more willing to pay Adobe big chunks of money while hesitating to press the "Buy me a coffee" button of an open-source alternative, I don't see Adobe/etc. change their strategy.
If you'd like, you can also view that you're being milked for money and IP because there is no alternative you'd like to try.