Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes

I have a cracked PS install, and the generative fill works just fine for me, and its got all inbound/outbound connections blocked on my firewall.

If you're using it professionally, you need your Photoshop to be properly licensed.

If you're not using it professionally, there's no need for proper licenses. And thus you can...acquire Photoshop in a way that doesn't involve it calling back to Adobe's systems.

I've finally started learning to use krita, I'm enjoying it a lot (begrudgingly)

I doubt that for two reasons:

• There's no non-admin way for an app to discern if it's a firewall block, or a legitimate no-internet situation (i.e. didn't purchase in-flight WiFi). It would also look really bad PR-wise if a company banned customers just because their internet went down or was otherwise spotty.

• How would they even know? Their software can't tattle on me if it's been blocked from establishing a connection.

Search: block app from internet [my operating system]

There are plenty of people who need a better editor than GIMP considering how long it's gone without a major refresh (this isn't a whinge it's been over a decade). For anyone that actually cares about their sanity there's Krita, that actually tries to build a program for professionals.

Edit: Let alone Krita can actually be used by schools, while GIMP isn't because of the name.

I like owning my shit and want to keep owning my shit

I see GIMP and Krita in my near future

If you keep using these, then you won't own anything.

I mean I disagree about not sympathizing with folks somewhat trapped in a hostile software ecosystem, but surely "stand by your beliefs" is not unheard of.

I would, and do. I have had to sacrifice some convenience to stand my ground and my values, but that's up to each individual how far they are willing to go.

This has been a legal requirement by the government for a while, in order to combat counterfeit money. Many tools that work with images will complain about banknotes, even printers.

Also it’s not AI based and isn’t sending your image to a server. It’s checking for certain specific anti-counterfeit details of banknotes.

I think they're having you agree to what they've already been doing.

Photoshop’s newest terms of service has users agree to allow Adobe access to their active projects for the purposes of “content moderation” and other various reasons.

They want you to give up the goods to train AI, old art is bad art to them. Also, this:

This has caused concern among professionals, as it means Adobe would have access to projects under NDA such as logos for unannounced games or other media projects. Sam Santala, the founder of Songhorn Studios noted the language of the terms on Twitter, calling out the company’s overreach.

i've been using releases from there for years and i've never had any problems, you can find people saying the same thing on sites like reddit

You are right, its most likely to train the AI. Sorry, I deleted my dumb comment before I saw your reply, in which case I would not have deleted it.