According to reports,Adobe Image generation AIFirefly” is known for sourcing its training set from images and videos from Adobe Stock. However, US economic newspaper Bloomberg reported that Firefly’s dataset actually contains images generated by companies such as Midjourney.
Adobe Stock is a material library operated by Adobe, where registered images and videos are used to train Firefly. As of now, Adobe Stock has begun accepting AI content, and about 14% of content has been marked as AI-generated images.
According to reports, in the early stages of Firefly's development, there were disagreements within Adobe about whether it should be trained on a dataset that included image-generating AI. In March 2023, when Adobe Firefly was released as a beta version, Adobe Stock community manager Raul Cerón said, "When we release the official version, we plan to prepare a new training database and exclude generated AI content." However, according to Bloomberg, Firefly The firstIn the training of commercial models, about 5% images were generated by other image generation AI.
A user named Brian Penny, who registered a Midjourney-generated work on Adobe Stock, said he was surprised by Adobe’s reward. Adobe pays creators of content used to train Firefly’s business model, and Penny was paid, meaning his work was used for learning, too.
However, Penny said that “Adobe needs to be more ethical, more transparent, and do more,” arguing that it is wrong to train Firefly with its own content. Professor Rebecca Tushnett, a legal scholar and copyright and trademark expert at Harvard University, said that “even if Adobe’s Firefly learns content generated by AI from images, it may not be less safe in terms of copyright or trademark, and does not have to disclose its training content unless it misleads consumers.”
However, Professor Tushnett pointed out that the fact that Firefly learned from Midjourney-generated images contradicts its claim that it is different from other image-generating AIs.