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
Recent dissection of the ethical concerns around AI mining of content. https://creativecommons.org/2021/03/04/should-cc-licensed-content-be-used-to-train-ai-it-depends/