 Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set. This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set. If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced. I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that. Idle thought of the day: if you assume that environmental crises, political instability, and authoritarian states are going to become more common over the next couple of decades, how would that change the way you design your websites and apps? How would you design your app if you are worried that an authoritarian state might seize all of your user's data and work? How would you design your website if you think the countries where your hosting datacentres are located might descend into civil war? Or get invaded? Most of us who are working on web apps and websites today are doing so in an unstable world. The UK and US are fast becoming more authoritarian so it might not be a hypothetical question for much longer. “Brian Eno on NFTs & Automatism” “The idea that Ayn Rand, that Nietzsche-for-Teenagers toxin, should have had her whacky ideas enshrined in a philosophy about money is what is terrifying to me.” https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/brian-eno-on-nfts-and-automatism/ |
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@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.