Firefly: Adobe’s Groundbreaking Generative AI

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• October 26, 2022

Adobe’s Firefly generative AI models are now generally available, get pricing plans

Now I pay a monthly fee to Apple Music and spend overall less and have access to far more music. But the overall trend since they announced their subscription model has been way upwards. If I have AI write a symphonic piece of music for me, and i pass it off as my own… What’s going to happen is that AI art will be the rule as opposed to the exception. Pandora’s box has long been open and AI art has been bought, sold and copyrighted… The Adobe bashathon started when LrC went subscription 7 years ago.

Adobe is used daily by our creative, website development, and social media teams, and Adobe Photoshop is a significant part of our creative and photography services. “The partnership has the potential to establish Adobe Firefly as the go-to image generation engine for businesses,” IDC analyst Gerry Murray said. At the Adobe Summit, several visions of how generative AI will be integrated into Experience Cloud products were presented. For example, when marketers create a new email campaign with Adobe Campaign, they will be able to describe the purpose of the campaign in a short text.

Adobe Firefly puts generative AI ‘on the side of the creatives’

Adobe Firefly supports text prompts in more than 100 languages and enables users to create content for commercial use. The features of Adobe Firefly will soon be incorporated into Adobe’s cluster of applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, AEM, Express, and more. This integration will make it easier for designers to use these tools within their existing workflow. Adobe Firefly leverages the power of natural language processing to understand the intent behind your text description and create high-quality visual content that matches your specification. This means you can create images faster and more efficiently than ever before. Since its launch in beta in March, Adobe has already integrated Firefly into Photoshop, Express, and Illustrator, and a Firefly web app is also available.

• Adobe is one of 15 companies that have pledged to the White House to develop tech that will identify AI-generated images and share safety data to promote responsible use of generative AI.
• But it also often produces distortions or weird problems – for example, an elephant with a second trunk where its tail should be.
• Generative credits provide priority processing of generative AI content across features powered by Firefly in the applications you are entitled to.
• This integration will make it easier for designers to use these tools within their existing workflow.
• Adobe is introducing Adobe GenStudio, a new solution that combines the best of content ideation, creation, production, and activation to revolutionize the Enterprise content supply chain with the power of generative AI.

Your characterising actual users of this software as ‘complainers’ shows exactly why you’re here and what your job is. If the software stops working, because someone can’t afford to maintain their subscription, then they will be LOCKED OUT of their own creating work, because Yakov Livshits the proprietary CS files cannot be opened without the software. It is 100% wrong that an American (or any other) Corporation can hold YOUR work to Ransom, by saying, in effect, “unless you continue to pay your protection money, YOU will be locked out of YOUR creative works”.

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Adobe has announced the launch of the new Firefly web application, a playground for exploring AI-assisted creative expression. After a successful six-month beta, Firefly-powered capabilities are now deeply integrated into creative workflows across Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Express and Adobe Experience Cloud. Now deeply integrated into creative workflows across Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Express and Adobe Experience Cloud, Firefly’s foundational generative AI models can be used to create stunning content safe for commercial use. “Firefly for Enterprise is designed to be commercially safe and Adobe plans to enable businesses to custom train Firefly with their own branded assets, generating content in the brand’s unique style and brand language. Firefly for Enterprise addresses the surging demand of digital content at scale and helps enterprises streamline and accelerate content creation while optimizing costs,” the company says. “With over 2 billion images generated during the Firefly beta, generative AI is ushering in a new era of creative expression for customers across every segment,” David Wadhwani, president of Adobe’s digital media business, said in a news release.

The company says the model will soon be integrated into its industry-leading tools including Express, Photoshop, Illustrator and Adobe Experience Manager so users can effortlessly leverage the power of generative AI within their existing workflows. In addition, Bard will be united with Adobe Express, an app that lets users create text, images and videos for logos, flyers, PDFs, social media posts and other content, according to Adobe. The second feature set currently available in Adobe Firefly is text effects.

Yakov Livshits
Founder of the DevEducation project
A prolific businessman and investor, and the founder of several large companies in Israel, the USA and the UAE, Yakov’s corporation comprises over 2,000 employees all over the world. He graduated from the University of Oxford in the UK and Technion in Israel, before moving on to study complex systems science at NECSI in the USA. Yakov has a Masters in Software Development.

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These are the questions that we will have to grapple with as we enter a new era of creativity assisted by artificial intelligence. Previously, Firefly was available only in beta versions of the software, and Adobe forbade Yakov Livshits its use in commercial projects. To sidestep copyright problems that may deter commercial customers from using AI, Adobe trained its Firefly AI on images from its own corpus of Adobe Stock imagery and public domain images.

Customers can buy additional Generative Credit subscription packs, although Adobe has not provided information on how much these will cost. History has shown that these sorts of measures can be bypassed, but Costin suggests that it’ll be a carefully guided — if imperfect — learning process. To wit, two companies behind popular AI art tools, Midjourney and Stability AI, are in the crosshairs of a legal case that alleges they infringed on the rights of millions of artists by training their tools on web-scraped images. Stock image supplier Getty Images has taken Stability AI to court, separately, for reportedly using millions of images from its site without permission to train the art-generating model Stable Diffusion. Users in Bard can type in a description of their desired image in Firefly and then edit it in Express using Adobe Stock images as well as fonts and templates. From Express, users can then share the image straight to social media platforms.

The last few years’ mild public interest in generative AI morphed into widespread fascination after ChatGPT appeared a few months ago. But in embarrassing attempts at commercial rollouts, Google’s Bard asserted falsehoods, as did Microsoft’s Bing chatbot. Napster’s growth to 80 million users had proved that people wanted to access music online instead of on CDs — but it got shut down after a lawsuit for copyright infringement brought by the Recording Industry Association of America.

It’s frustrating when a company limits our creative freedom and dictates its usage, especially for a product I’ve purchased. Perhaps society should adopt a more relaxed attitude towards nudity-related matters? 12 years ago pre subscription I, like many others was paying substantially more than that for the creative suite with fewer applications no mobile version, no cloud storage, integration or computing. The problem is not everyone using this software is a business or a professional and many do not qualify for a discount. Still, as an investor, I like the idea that people pay every month yet never own anything.

Today resolution is 2000×2000, this might increase in the future and Adobe might charge more credits per usage with higher resolutions (to be expected). @Thoughts R Us, It’s concerning when a company attempts to control how consumers utilize software they’ve purchased. Taking photographs, even those featuring nudity, isn’t inherently illegal or unethical. The U.S. has a weird relationship with nudity and sexuality; perhaps it’s time for a more balanced and accepting perspective. I don’t get caught up in the concept of ownership as long as something works for me. I remember in high school and college I would spend and probably overspend on buying records and tapes and CD’s.

Adobe’s Firefly generative AI models are now generally available, get pricing plans Now I pay a monthly fee to Apple Music and spend overall less and have access to far more music. But the overall trend since they announced their subscription model has been way upwards. If I have AI write a symphonic piece of…