Stallman was right
I wonder what state FOSS replacements for Adobe software would be in if a significant percentage of Adobe users used their subscription money to donate to FOSS replacements instead.
Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced
Submitted 5 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
realharo@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The ironic thing is that if it weren’t for free software, the entire AI industry would likely be a decade behind where it is today, if not more.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
That’s true for all IT industries. All IT stands on the shoulders of FOSS.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 months ago
There's a very significant open-source AI industry, too. Krita's got a great Stable Diffusion plugin that lets you generate and inpaint right in the editor, using entirely local models.
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Because they will. They literally will.
Adobe is one of the most awful, insidious, evil corporations in the software space and they have done absolutely nothing to claw back even a tiny shred of good faith.
xenomor@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This seems to happen every time a technology company grows beyond some threshold of size/market share/revenue. I can’t think of a single exception.
bcnelson@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Valve has done a pretty good job. Probably because of their ownership model
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Our economy literally forces companies to be evil. Once you do an IPO, you’re contractually obliged to be shitty in order to bring higher revenues.
rndll@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Autodesk would like to have a word.
trolololol@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oracle and Amazon enter the chat
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
“Lying Shit Heads Say Lies” More Breaking News at 11
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Well change your fucking ToS back you rats!
lapping6596@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t have access to the whole article, but this video says they did.
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Hm, okay. I personally still wouldn’t trust them with anything, as they’re clearly willing to go as far as they possibly can.
I understand that in the corporate world, switching away from Adobe isn’t as easy.
Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Never ever trust a corporation. In case of Adobe, they don’t give a shit about your creative work. That’s not what they are in business for. They are in business to increase revenue and reduce expense, by any means necessary. Just like all corporations. Their customers are but a product for them that they can manipulate how they see fit. Capitalism demands profit over people. Never trust a corporation.
Hupf@feddit.de 5 months ago
Is this one of those “yeah, we legally gave ourselves permission but trust us we won’t use it” cases that also commonly happens in politics?
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555@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher
Sorry, no linux versions.
MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Wish I could switch to Affinity, Publisher just isn’t quite there yet in a print production environment.
thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
How so? Genuinely curious what’s missing as someone who tried it on a job, and loved it.
I just sent a job to print yesterday and the printer didn’t bat an eye.
Are we talking specific types of printing? Like booklets or runs with specific imposition needs or something else?
I think ultimately it will depend on what one needs printed. It would easily meet most common printing requirements as far as I can tell.
neo@lemy.lol 5 months ago
I would be so happy if there was a Linux version!
555@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’d settle for anything better that GIMP 🤮
z00s@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Does anyone else find the term “creatives” to be so damn condescending? It’d be like calling executives, “Admins” or “powerpointers”
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Trust us bro!
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Oh that reminds me… I’ve bought the affinity suite some days ago and forgot to install. They have a massive price reduction at the moment to fish in Adobe’s muddy waters for disgruntled customers.
thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I tried Affinity Publisher 2 the other day and it convinced me to pull the plug on Adobe and switch on the Affinity suite. Everything was straightforward and far more intuitive than InDesign ever was (which itself was far better than Quark Xpress before it).
I bought the Affinity Suite, exported all my Creative Cloud libraries (they’re just zip files with a different extension), copied all my Creative Cloud files to our self-hosted Nextcloud and off we went.
I promptly cancelled creative cloud. As I’ve said before, I’ll miss generative fill in photoshop - it was very good.
It’ll also take a while to figure out / learn Fusion as a replacement for AE but having spent a lot of time with Shake in the past, it’ll be fine.
djsaskdja@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Would be more interesting if they had a Linux version.
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Don’t trust capitalists
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
“We won’t train AI on artists’ work…this quarter.”
Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
release your training materials.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Adobe kinda burned up any good will it had with…all the shit they pullin’
Snapz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“…for now”
elrik@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What then will they use to train it?
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I know some don’t it, but I just can’t hear the word “creatives” as anything other than silicon valley speak for the source of the content they sell. It feels dehumanizing.
Particularly in this case, it’s Adobe, so you can just call them artists, designers, photographers, etc.
Or, ya know, just users.
CthuluVoIP@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In fairness, it’s Wired who called them creatives, while Adobe called them artists.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That’s pretty bad. It’s like calling people “the talent”.
Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Remember when consumers where customers?
Eggyhead@kbin.run 5 months ago
So if artists are “creatives”, what does that make them? “Exploiters”?