@baldur You can always count on adobe to somehow become worse

@baldur Well this flippin' sucks big eggs. Where do we tell Lightroom not to do this? Is it too late?

@baldur @emilyk Unfortunately, it would seem that Adobe has turned evil. It is a good thing that there are good open source alternatives these days.

@baldur lol typical proprietary software behavior

@baldur to be fair, in the context of Lightroom “machine learning” means being able to type “bird” in the search and find pictures of birds because Adobe Sensei has learned what birds look like. Not all machine learning is AI art generation.

@baldur I just started using Lightroom, and now concerned. Is this parallel to how Github Copilot is looking at everyones code for training ML models?

@baldur Conversely, you can upload nothing but crudely drawn genitalia tens of thousands of times to train the AI into a downward spiral of pub toilet wall drawings.

@baldur I suppose as long as they aren't published or used for future AI image creation sites/software then it shouldn't be an issue

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Deliberately choose Free and Open Source software to be more resilient to company policies. I can recommend #Darktable and #digiKam

@baldur this is only the “modern” Lightroom, correct? not “Lightroom Classic?” they’re two distinctly different products and that should be worth noting…

@baldur Thanks for sharing. Doesn't surprise me as the AI for Lightroom is getting better each year. So they need to train it on a big set of data.

Where did you find this setting? Am considering turning it off.

#Adobe #Lightroom #photography

@baldur @jhamby fyi

@baldur Another great reason to pirate Adobe products or not upgrade if you're using an older version. Thanks Adobe!

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Time to donate another $50 to the Krita project or the open source alternative project of my choice

@baldur Adobe does something awful? Color me surprised.

Ok but snark aside, this is absolutely awful of Adobe to do. I’m not surprised though, they always find some way to be a crappy business.

@baldur Is this Lightroom (Mobile) or or classic? I haven't seen this setting on Classic.

@baldur I don't know if this was suggested already in one of the hundreds of comments, I've not the patience to read them all 😬 but this could be a valid alternative for Windows desktop to iPad sync: https://www.resilio.com/individuals/

I've been using this software since its name was still Bittorrent Sync and it works very well

@baldur I wonder if artists could make valid copyright infringement or tortuous interference claims on this given that (a) the consent here is dubious and (b) oftentimes said content is a work product that they aren't permitted to share like that in the first place.

@baldur This sucks.

@baldur This is flat-out unethical (and probably should be illegal). Person(s) responsible should be fired. (And then perhaps rehired and fired a second time, just for emphasis)

@baldur And they are charging you for that.

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True. Just checked - it was also enabled in my account.

@baldur thank you for this alarming information! where can I find this "Content analysis" setting so I can opt out? I've been looking through Lightroom and the Creative Cloud app, but haven't found it.

@baldur update: I found it. you have to log in here and un-select that option: https://helpx.adobe.com/manage-account/using/machine-learning-faq.html#:~:text=If%20you%20don't%20want%20Adobe%20to%20analyze%20your%20content,product%20improvement%20and%20development%20purposes%20.

@baldur gimp will never steal your art

@baldur Troubling, given I pay THEM for the use of Lr.

@baldur I called this just a month ago. I knew they'd do it. Fuck Adobe. Use open source.

@baldur Wow what a massive invasion of privacy

@baldur for sure!

@baldur 1. Be under 18. 2. Work on a photo of your naked self. 3. Tell the FBI Adobe is collecting CP material.

@baldur @chrisubik IDK if your alternative workflow also includes/precludes Lightroom, but... Tell your friends?

@baldur what a really shitty move yet unsurprising move by a shitty company

@baldur Weird how paying for the product isn't enough for some software firms.

@baldur I'm going to tag #photography into this. Perhaps it's not exactly "correct" as it's not an image, but I think this is important and the people who use the tools are going to be effected.

@baldur @ironicsans Thanks for the heads up though it seems I was opted out by default?

@baldur any idea which version(s) of Lightroom this applies to? I don’t use cloud sync myself and I only use Lightroom Classic.