What can type of files can it be used for?

What they want to know is what type of files can it be used for. They are wondering if they could use it for open access published articles. From a copyright perspective, we are not necessarily concerned about the use of open access material, more the use of subscription material. Can you tell me if Adobe’s AI assistant copies the material to train the model? I will have a look at their terms and conditions, but if you could advise me on it, that would be most helpful.

Their published information about how the document content is used and handled is at https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/data-usage-and-handling.html

And asserts that it does not use the content to train the LLMs that they use.

However, I would say (and this is more DP area than ours) the difficulty always arises from the content of the document itself, so consideration that it doesn't fall into GDPR areas (i.e. there's personal information or it's identifiable, or it's used to make automated decisions about a person) should be considered by the user.

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Adobe Copyright & Terms of Use

There has been some recent controversy around Adobe’s Terms of Use, claiming new Terms of Service for Adobe Creative Cloud requires users agreeing to Adobe gaining free access to users' projects “for whatever they want to do with it” (https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/06/06/adobes-new-terms-of-service-unacceptably-gives-them-access-to-all-of-your-projects-for-free ).

Adobe have issued a clarification on their ToS on 6th July 2024 and a further clarification on 10th July 2024.

The 10th July statement clarifies:

• You own your content. Your content is yours and will never be used to train any generative AI tool. We will make it clear in the license grant section that any license granted to Adobe to operate its services will not supersede your ownership rights.

• We don’t train generative AI on customer content. We are adding this statement to our Terms of Use to reassure people that is a legal obligation on Adobe. Adobe Firefly is only trained on a dataset of licensed content with permission, such as Adobe Stock, and public domain content where copyright has expired.

• […]

• Adobe does not scan content stored locally on your computer in any way. For content that you upload to our servers — like all content-hosting platforms — Adobe automatically scans content you upload to our services to ensure we are not hosting any child sexual abuse material (CSAM). If our automated system flags an issue, we will conduct a human review to investigate. The only other instances where a human will review your content is upon your request (per a support request) if it is posted to a public facing site, or to otherwise comply with the law.

(Emphasis is ours).