Adobe Unveils New Image Generation Tools in AI Push (reuters.com) 14
Adobe on Tuesday said it is rolling out new image-generation technology that can draw inspiration from an uploaded image and match its style, in its latest push to compete with startups challenging its core business. From a report: Image-generating technology from firms like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion have threatened Adobe's customer base of creative professionals who use its tools like Photoshop. The San Jose, California-based company has responded by aggressively developing its own version of the technology and injecting it into its software programs. Adobe, which has promised its customers that generated images will be safe from legal challenges, said those customers have used the tools to generate three billion images, a billion of them in the last month alone.
The new generation of tools announced on Tuesday will include a feature called "Generative Match". Like Adobe's earlier tool, it will allow users to generate an image from a few words of text. But it will also allow users to upload as few as 10 to 20 images to use as a basis for the generated images. Ely Greenfield, Adobe's chief technology officer for digital media, said the company aims to let big brands upload a handful of photos of a product or character and then use generative technology to automatically make hundreds or thousands of images for various needs like websites, social media campaigns and print advertisements.
The new generation of tools announced on Tuesday will include a feature called "Generative Match". Like Adobe's earlier tool, it will allow users to generate an image from a few words of text. But it will also allow users to upload as few as 10 to 20 images to use as a basis for the generated images. Ely Greenfield, Adobe's chief technology officer for digital media, said the company aims to let big brands upload a handful of photos of a product or character and then use generative technology to automatically make hundreds or thousands of images for various needs like websites, social media campaigns and print advertisements.
push to compete with startups challenging its core (Score:5, Insightful)
push to compete with startups challenging its core business
In other words... "We've been fat and happy raking in billions without doing shit for over a decade and it caught up with us."
So your images you upload...do they...? (Score:5, Interesting)
Does anyone know what the fine print at Adobe says about ANY images you edit or upload to the Creative Cloud what their rights are as to scanning, training of AI or even output to other customers?
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Given that the images are uploaded to be scanned, would anyone expect Adobe NOT to have rights to scan them? And why would the customer care, those aren't their images nor would they have obtained rights to them anyway.
And, of course, we are talking about tools for SuperKendall photo pros anyway. Exploit others to your benefit, pull up the ladder when you're done.
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WTF?
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Why would they want to? Training models with data from other models can lead to severe degradation.
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So do people posting to forums on their computer.
But then ... (Score:3)
...the famous crisis actors are out of a job!
Meh, fix the filtering shite first (Score:3)
They need to fix the overly restrictive filtering shit they have in Photoshop's generative fill.
Things that can trigger the filter:
Asking for smooth skin, you know for photo touchup like they fucking advertise the shit for.
Asking for mountains.
Asking for a pocket.
Asking for a pocket t-shirt.
Asking for a t-shirt.
Putting literally NOTHING in the prompt box.
Asking for a Ford Mustang.
Asking for a generic sportscar.
Until they fix the stupidity of that filter shit fewer people will use it, and if they do use it it will be less and less. The only reason they saw a spike in use at ALL was because about a month ago... it finally came into the stable version of Photoshop, not restricted to only the version in the beta channel.
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If I had any mod points, I would be happy to give you some.
As their " generative fill " exists right now, it's effectively useless.
So much so, that I simply disabled it despite all their cheerleading.
Too many times my attempts to use it triggered the warning that I'm violating their terms of service and
if I continue, Adobe can " take steps " whatever the hell that means.
Once they implement their token based usage plan, their much celebrated " AI " feature will simply fade away
and be just another gimmick on
Giving Adobe too much credit for too little. (Score:2)
Image-generating technology from firms like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion have threatened Adobe's customer base of creative professionals who use its tools like Photoshop.
Reading this you'd swear the only thing that was a threat to digital professionals since Photoshop's launch was LLMs. In reality ever since graphic design "went digital" there's been a greater pressure on people who were "graphic designers" to become "creative professionals".
This is a gross simplification but it's a PR piece for Adobe so naturally it's going to be self serving. But a part of the reason that company is so famous is because their business model hollows out "creative professionals" through cyc
"Draw Inspiration" (Score:1)