Adobe rolls out AI features, plans for price hikes and payouts
Summary
Sept 13 (Reuters) - After months of testing, Adobe (ADBE.O) on Wednesday opened up access to a range of generative artificial intelligence features across its software, with plans to raise prices but also to pay the contributors whose work helps make the features possible. Adobe makes Photoshop and other editing tools that form the core of its Creative Cloud subscription software business. For the past six months, the company has been steadily adding new AI features to those programs, such as the ability to generate images from text. Adobe is promising businesses the content its systems generate will be legally safe to use, which has become a contentious issue as content creators challenge technology firms in court over whether they are owed royalties for the use of their work in "training" AI systems. Adobes system is based on content that it either has rights to or is in the public domain, and the company is offering a financial indemnity to its customers to back up its claims.