Adobe

> About

Firefly AI image generation, Sensei AI. Trained on scraped images from artists without consent. Facing lawsuits from creators.

Website

https://adobe.com

CEO

Shantanu Narayen

Founded

1982

Valuation

$250B+

> Founders

John WarnockCharles Geschke

> Products & Services

FireflyAdobe SenseiAI features in Creative Cloud

> Layoffs

100 employees

Sales team layoffs due to challenging global macroeconomic conditions

Source

> Controversies

Class-action lawsuit alleging use of pirated books to train AI models without permission or compensation[1]

Controversy 1 Sources:

  1. Adobe faces class action lawsuit after allegedly misusing authors work in AI training(2025-12)

Terms of service update allowing access to user content for service improvement, raising privacy and AI training concerns[2]

Controversy 2 Sources:

  1. Adobe terms of use update sparks privacy copyright controversy(2024-06)

> Tags

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