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Adobe uses licensed images, vectors, illustrations, and videos contributed to Adobe Stock as training data for its Adobe Firefly family of generative AI models, and pays eligible contributors an annual bonus tied to the volume and licensing performance of their assets used in training.
Details
Adobe confirmed that Firefly's first commercially released model was trained on Adobe Stock licensed content, openly licensed content, and public domain content where copyright has expired. Contributor agreement terms permit this use. Adobe pays contributors a discretionary annual Firefly Contributor Bonus: the 2023 bonus covered data used from June 2022–June 2023; the 2024 bonus added videos for the first time; and the 2025 bonus covered data from June 2024–June 2025. Bonus amounts vary per contributor and are weighted by the number of licensed assets. Adobe confirmed in its official Firefly FAQ that it does not allow contributors to opt out of having their content used for training.
Products affected
Adobe StockAdobe Firefly
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Trace Foundation. (2026). Adobe Stock: Adobe uses licensed images, vectors, illustrations, and videos contributed to Adobe Stock as training data for its Adobe Firefly family of generative AI models, and pays eligible contributors an annual bonus tied to the volume and licensing performance of their assets used in training (data as of 2026-04-22) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/0c9421a9-db2c-4df3-8ffe-6dbc2b98e6cd. Accessed September 11, 2026.
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- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/0c9421a9-db2c-4df3-8ffe-6dbc2b98e6cd
- Data as of
- April 22, 2026
- Last verified
- April 22, 2026
Other practices by Adobe Stock
RecommendationAdobe Stock offers a Find Similar feature that uses an AI image-similarity engine to surface stock assets that visually match a selected image, allowing users to search by content, color, or composition instead of — or in addition to — text keywords.Creative GenAdobe Stock offers AI-powered editing tools, branded as Generative Edits and Generative Variations, that let all stock customers modify existing licensed images before downloading, using features such as background removal, background replacement, image expansion, and style or composition changes. These tools were first made available to business customers in 2024 and became generally available to all stock customers in November 2024.ModerationAdobe Stock uses AI-powered moderation systems to categorize and screen contributor-submitted assets for policy violations, including detecting the use of artist names in AI-generated content metadata and flagging content that may violate intellectual property guidelines.
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