Our reality is suspect. Really pisses me off as a graphic artist that Adobe is so cavalier in handling these AI images that they culled from their own clients. Clients that have used their tools for decades. Seems like a betrayal to me.
https://wapo.st/47yRy1h
@thedisasterautist there is that huge gap between "legal" and "ethical. I pulled the plug on Adobe when they priced themselves out of my means. Quite happy with Affinity. They have rejected easy AI filters in their software development.
@altucker @thedisasterautist hey. That’s good to know because I switched to Affinity, too. It’s great, only I don’t use it often enough to learn it to the level I knew Photoshop. 😢 They priced it for corporate, not individual, users.
@Ellomumsy @thedisasterautist I taught Adobe graphics programs for over twenty years, they blew me out of the water with their yearly prices a few years ago. I’m retired and do mostly volunteer work for non profits now.
I use Capture One and dropped Adobe subscription products.
Capture One emphatically assures users that their images are NOT being scraped for AI.
I assume that anything posted on the internet might be grabbed though, copyright protections or not.
@tgraph52 I went with Affinity which has a suite of graphics applications (photo, vector art and page layout) that I've been able to use without any problems. Very affordable, one time purchase.
I use Affinity Photo. It replaced the Photoshop Elements had been using..
and Capture One replaced the full Photoshop when Adobe decided subscriptions would make them more money
@altucker: It is, but it may well be that there's language buried deep, deeeeeeep down in their license that "gives [us] permission [blah blah blah]".