Adobe’s AI Firefly Used AI-Generated Images From Rivals for Training
Apr 12, 2024 - bloomberg.com
Adobe Inc.'s Firefly image-generating software, released last year, was reportedly trained mainly on Adobe Stock, a database of hundreds of millions of licensed images. The company presented Firefly as a "commercially safe" alternative to competitors like Midjourney, which learned from images scraped from across the internet. However, it was later revealed that Adobe also used AI-generated content from these same competitors to train Firefly, a detail that was not made clear in the company's presentations and public posts about the software.
Despite promoting Firefly as safer than its competition due to its training data, Adobe did not disclose that it actually used images from some of these same competitors in its model. This revelation raises questions about the company's transparency regarding the development and training of its AI software.
Key takeaways:
Adobe Inc. released its AI model, Firefly, which generates images, last year.
The company claimed that Firefly was trained mainly on Adobe Stock, its database of licensed images, and presented it as a 'commercially safe' alternative to competitors like Midjourney.
However, Adobe also used AI-generated content to train Firefly, including from its AI rivals.
Despite numerous presentations and public posts about Firefly's safety due to its training data, Adobe did not disclose that it used images from some of its competitors for training the model.
