Adobe scrambles to earn back user trust by updating terms next week.

Adobe has promised to update its terms of service to make it “abundantly clear” that the company will “never” train generative AI on creators’ content after days of customer backlash, with some saying they would cancel Adobe subscriptions over its vague terms.

Users got upset last week when an Adobe pop-up informed them of updates to terms of use that seemed to give Adobe broad permissions to access user content, take ownership of that content, or train AI on that content. The pop-up forced users to agree to these terms to access Adobe apps, disrupting access to creatives’ projects unless they immediately accepted them.

For any users unwilling to accept, canceling annual plans could trigger fees amounting to 50 percent of their remaining subscription cost. Adobe justifies collecting these fees because a “yearly subscription comes with a significant discount.”

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
    521·
    5 months ago

    Stop threatening, and just cancel already.

    What happened to the vigor of society’s cancel culture? Why are we not canceling corporate abuse like this? Or Microsoft’s? Or Google’s? Or Amazon’s? Did we forget about cancel culture? Or are we just fine with being pawns in their dystopian capitalist games? Cancel culture had the potential to make real change, and we allowed corporations to cancel cancel culture for their capital gains.

    • Snowclone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      5 months ago

      There’s big client companies that have already cut them off, and they won’t bother coming back for the same price and unsubstantiated changes, Adobe is changing this now because they are now bleeding.

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
      92·
      5 months ago

      I like to think the large corporations, specifically the social media giants, purposefully did everything in their power to water down the term through algorithm manipulation to ensure cancel culture or anything like it is ridiculed to the point that everyone becomes apathetic about it since it now applies to anyone/thing you don’t like.