While Adobe has been showing off Firefly, its Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) technology, the software behemoth has been making a series of decisions that continue to upset its base of creative users.

A recent change to Adobe’s General Terms of Use includes the following language that reads, “Solely for the purposes of operating or improving the Services and Software, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content.”

Adobe has released a brief statement that this update is NOT about training Firefly on your content. But Adobe also didn’t exactly address concerns raised by many about Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA) and fears that Adobe peeking at sensitive content might be legally perilous. It should be noted that Adobe follows up immediately in the Terms of Use to clarify that it does not claim ownership rights to user content, who retains that ownership. Still, if that language sounds scary and has eroded your trust in Adobe enough to consider alternatives, you’re not alone.