You may have been using the Adobe Firefly generative AI tool to create commercially safe and ethical images for use in your work and other projects of late. After all, that's how Adobe sold the image-creating tool to users, saying that it was a better option than competing products like Midjourney. But it turns out that the two are more similar than you might think — because Firefly used Midjourney-created images as a way to learn.
While Adobe said that it used its own Adobe Stock images to teach Firefly's AI how to create new ones, things were a little murkier than the company first let on. While that was technically true, and Adobe Stock's database of hundreds of millions of licensed images was indeed used, the source of those images is a problem. Because some of them were created using Midjourney, the same generative AI that Adobe claimed wasn't to be trusted.
