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Adobe’s Firefly Generative AI-Models Are Now Generally Available

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Adobe posted news titled: “Adobe Express With AI-Powered Firefly Integration Now Commercially Available”. Here are some parts of this news:

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AI-first, all-in-one editor gives users the ability to make high-impact design elements, engaging videos and images, stunning PDFs, animation and standout content ready for Instagram, TikTok, and other social channels and platforms.

Firefly integrated into Express makes it possible to quickly generate custom images and text effects from text prompts in over 100 languages and designed to be safe for commercial use. Plus, more AI-power helps creators to take the guesswork out of design and quickly find the perfect addition to content or get personalized template recommendations that fit unique styles, to create social media posts, videos, posters, flyers and more.

Deep workflows with Creative Cloud apps allow users to easily access, edit and work with creative assets from Photoshop and Illustrator directly within Express, or add linked files that always stay in sync across apps.

Brand Control Features unlock creativity across the Enterprise, given users the ability to create, edit, and version brand approved assets to deliver on-brand quality content at scale.

PDF Support in the new all-in-one editor makes it even easier to import, edit, and enhance documents to create visually stunning PDF’s.

Quick actions like remove background in images and videos, animate a character using just audio, convert to GIF and edit PDFs, makes it even easier to create standout content quickly and simply.

Real-time co-editing and seamless review and comment capabilities add speed to the creation process.

176 days after launching its Firefly generative AI models into beta, Adobe announced that Firefly is now generally and commercially available in its Creative Cloud, Adobe Express and Adobe Experience Cloud, TechCrunch reported.

According to TechCrunch, Adobe also announced how it plans to charge for Firefly going forward. The company is going to use what it calls “generative credits’ to measure how often users interact with these models. Basically, every time you click ‘generate’ to create a Firefly image, you’ll consume one credit (and the company retooled the Firefly web app, for example, so that it doesn’t automatically start generating images before you’ve made all of the tweaks you wanted to make.)

TechCrunch also reported that everybody on existing paid Adobe plans will get access to quite a few of these generative credits. Here is the full list:

* Cloud All Apps: 1,000
* Creative Cloud Single App (include Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premier Pro, AfterEffects
Audition, Animate Dreamweaver, Stock, Photography 1TB): 500
* Adobe Stock paid subscriptions: 500
* Adobe Express Premium: 250
* Adobe Firefly Premium: 100
* Creative Cloud for Enterprise All Apps: 1,000
* Creative Cloud Pro Plus All Apps: 3,000
* Free Users with an Adobe ID; Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud: 25

TechCrunch noted that once you run out of those credits – at least on most of these plans – you won’t lose access to Firefly, but it will run significantly slower.

Engadget that generative AI has not exactly been greeted with the warmest of welcomes, mostly on account of it ripping off an entire internet’s worth of art for its training. Then there was the whole subsequent “replacing actual artists with cheap AI knockoffs after stealing their work for training purposes” issue as well.

Personally, I’m not a fan of AI-created content. I very much prefer making my own artwork by hand, like I was taught when I was in college. Any art I choose to post online is behind a locked account – specifically to prevent an AI from stealing my work.

Amazon Requires Authors To Disclose AI-Generated Content

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Amazon is now requiring authors who sell books through the company’s e-book program to disclose in advance if their work contains any AI-generated material, PCMag reported.

A new passage in the company’s direct publishing guidelines states: “We require you to inform us of AI-generated content (text, images, or translations), when you publish a new book or make edits to and republish and existing book through KDP. AI-generated images include cover and interior images and artwork.”

According to PCMag, the company does not require authors to disclose AI-assisted content, which it defines as content you created yourself and then “used AI-based tools to edit, refine, error-check, or otherwise improve that content (whether text or images).”

According to PCMag, the AP reported the move comes after months of complaints from organizations like the Authors Guild, which have concerns about “AI-generated books flooding the platform and displacing human authors to protect consumers from unwittingly purchasing AI-generated texts.”

The Authors Guild posted news titled: “Amazon’s New Disclosure Policy for AI-Generated Book Content Is a Welcome First Step”. From the news (which was posted on September 7):

Today, Amazon announced its new policy requiring those who post content to its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform to disclose to Amazon if the content contains AI-generated content, including text, images, or translations.

The new policy comes after months of discussions between the Author’s Guild and KDP leadership on the need for safeguards against AI-generated books flooding the platform and displacing human authors and to protect consumers from unwittingly purchasing AI-generated texts. We are grateful to the Amazon team for taking our concerns into account and enacting this important step toward ensuring transparency and accountability for AI-generated content.

The Authors Guild is currently working to ensure that books used to train generative AI are licensed, and we do not encourage the use of any AI that is trained on unlicensed books and journalism. The unchecked use of generative AI technologies to compose the entire text of a book, resulting in AI-generated books, poses a serious threat.

In recent news, we have seen examples of AI-generated books ascending the best-seller lists on Amazon, and content farms appropriating the name, styles, and content of well-known authors such as Jane Friedman. This is grossly unfair to the writers who bring unique life experiences and talent to their work, and who cannot fairly compete against industrialized content farms…

Amazon provided the following information regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI) content (text, images, or translations):

AI-generated: We define AI-generated content as text, images, or translations created by an AI-based tool. If you used an AI-based tool to create the actual content (whether text, images, or translations), it is considered “AI-generated,” even if you applied substantial edits afterwards.

AI-assisted: If you created the content yourself, and used AI-based tools to refine, error-check, or otherwise improve that content (whether text or images), then it is considered “AI-assisted” and not “AI-generated.” Similarly, if you used an AI-based tool to brainstorm and generate ideas, but ultimately created the text or images yourself, this is also considered “AI-assisted” and not “AI-generated.” It is not necessary to inform us of the use of such tools or processes.

Personally, I think it was a good decision for Amazon to specify rules about how they will treat AI-generated content in books that it allows to be on its KDP site. I cannot imagine that an AI-driven storyline would result in a compelling, interesting, and entertaining story.