Discover how Adobe is taking generative artificial intelligence to a new level with its Project Firefly features.
Creative software
As one of the largest providers of creative software in the world, Adobe has responded to speculation about how and when it would integrate this technology into its suite of programs with a series of new features that interweave machine learning capabilities into its various design and marketing offerings.
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With the first two features, image creation and generative design for text, available this week, more are expected to be introduced in the future. Although Adobe believes that generative AI is key to the future of its platform, the software giant has had to tread carefully in this space as it caters to a large base of creator and artist customers who are concerned about their work being used to train these models and automate their jobs.
Nonetheless, the company believes that creative work that utilizes AI will be more competitive than those that do not.
Project Firefly
Adobe’s Project Firefly will allow people to create images with detailed text messages, a process similar to that of competing products such as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, and generate and apply similar styles to filters. Another feature, called text effects, will automate designs, styles, and textures within the letters of a specific font.
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In addition to integrating these tools into its marketing software, Adobe will also release a function that generates a customized brand copy for advertising, leveraging large language models backed by Microsoft’s OpenAI and others.
Generative AI
As generative AI has rapidly developed in recent years, Adobe has had to invest in its Firefly project for up to three years to create moderately realistic models. Although they trained their image model only on Adobe stock images and public domain media to avoid lawsuits, Adobe also offers creators the option to exclude their work from the training databases and plans to develop a compensation model for artists whose work is used.
Firefly project and OpenAI
In addition, the company has worked closely with OpenAI to incorporate its large language models into the Firefly project. Collaboration with the Microsoft-backed organization was a natural choice, given that Adobe has already integrated OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model into its Adobe Experience Cloud marketing platform.
Overall, Adobe’s Firefly project is yet another example of the rapid advancement of generative AI technology in the field of image creation and design. As generative AI continues to evolve, the tools and features that are introduced now may seem primitive compared to what will be developed in the future.
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Nonetheless, Adobe has taken a significant step by incorporating these generative AI capabilities into its suite of programs, allowing content creators to create customized and compelling designs more quickly and efficiently. And although concern about the use of intellectual property in training AI models is legitimate, Adobe has taken steps to ensure that the copyrights of creators are respected.
Adobe’s Firefly project is definitely an exciting addition to generative AI technology in the field of image creation and design, and is a clear example of how companies are embracing this technology to offer more powerful and effective tools to content creators.
