2023
Adobe launched its Firefly foundation model for text-to-image generation in March of the year before this interview.
“last March, we launched our foundation model Adobe Firefly, you know, which is helps uh people do text to image generation.”
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Adobe Firefly
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2023
Adobe trained its Firefly image model on Adobe Stock content and other licensed work instead of scraping the web.
“we decided to train Firefly on our own Adobe Stock content and other licensed work from the rights holders to build our model.”
2023
Adobe launched the second version of its Firefly model at its Adobe Max conference, about a month before the interview.
“we were even more excited about the 2nd version of the model, which we launched at Adobe Max.”
2023
Adobe offered to cover the legal bills of Firefly users who are sued for copyright infringement over its output.
“In June, Adobe offered to cover the legal bills of anyone who gets sued for copyright infringement if they use Firefly.”
Undated
Narayen said Adobe has rights to train its models on content from its Adobe Stock business.
“we have a stock business where we have rights to train the models based on our stock business”
Undated
Narayen said Adobe did not train its Firefly image models on Behance content because that was not the agreement with Behance users.
“While that's owned by Adobe, we did not train our Firefly image models based on that because that was not the agreement that we had with people who do it.”
Undated
May Habib says Adobe Firefly is a partner and that 95% of Writer customers' workloads run on the Palmyra models, with Gemini used for some image generation.
“Firefly is a big partner of ours, but, uh, 95% of the workloads are on the Palmyra models.”
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