Adobes Firefly was touted as a safe and ethical alternative to competitors like Midjourney… but it also quietly trained Firefly on Midjourney images..https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-12/adobe-s-ai-firefly-used-ai-generated-images-from-rivals-for-training
Proko makes this interesting point at around 12 minutes - "Ai art is just a very small piece of research that comes under the umbrella of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and all the small companies making AI art picked up on this tiny piece of tech almost by an accidental open source side effect of the tools being…