Adobe's Firefly AI has two big selling points over the rest of the best AI art generators. First, it's practical for creative workflows, powering tools integrated in existing software like Photoshop and Illustrator. Second, it's been billed as being commercially safe. But it turns out that it has a few skeletons in its closet... or rather in its training data.
Adobe has made much of the point that Firefly was trained on public domain material and images from Adobe Stock, its own library of licensed assets. In theory, that makes it more ethical than the AI image generators that were trained by scraping the entire web, sucking up artists' and photographers' work without permission. So reports that Firefly was also trained on Midjourney images are a little embarrassing for the software giant.
