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.”

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    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.

    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.”

    On X (formerly Twitter), YouTuber Sasha Yanshin wrote that he canceled his Adobe license “after many years as a customer,” arguing that “no creator in their right mind can accept” Adobe’s terms that seemed to seize a “worldwide royalty-free license to reproduce, display, distribute” or “do whatever they want with any content” produced using their software.

    But he acknowledged that those terms were written about 11 years ago and that the language could be plainer, writing that “modern terms of service in the current climate of customer concerns should evolve to address modern day concerns directly.”

    Another user in the thread using an anonymous X account also pushed back, writing, "Point to where it says in the terms that you won’t use our content for LLM or AI training?

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