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. | AI Trace
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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.
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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.
