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Adobe Starts Roll-Out of AI Video Tools, Challenging OpenAI and Meta (reuters.com)

(Monday October 14, 2024 @05:50PM (BeauHD) from the new-challenger-appears dept.)


An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters:

> Adobe (ADBE.O), opens new tab on Monday said it has [1]started publicly distributing an AI model that can generate video from text prompts , joining the growing field of companies trying to upend film and television production using generative artificial intelligence. The Firefly Video Model, as the technology is called, will compete with OpenAI's Sora, which was [2]introduced earlier this year , while TikTok owner ByteDance and Meta Platforms have also announced their video tools in recent months.

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> Facing much larger rivals, Adobe has staked its future on building models trained on data that it has rights to use, ensuring the output can be legally used in commercial work. San Jose, California-based Adobe will start opening up the tool to people who have signed up for its waiting list but did not give a general release date. While Adobe has not yet announced any customers using its video tools, it said on Monday that PepsiCo-owned Gatorade will use its image generation model for a site where customers can order custom-made bottles, and Mattel has been using Adobe tools to help design packaging for its Barbie line of dolls.

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> For its video tools, Adobe has aimed at making them practical for everyday use by video creators and editors, with a special focus on making the footage blend in with conventional footage, said Ely Greenfield, Adobe's chief technology officer for digital media. "We really focus on fine-grain control, teaching the model the concepts that video editors and videographers use -- things like camera position, camera angle, camera motion," Greenfield told Reuters in an interview.



[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/adobe-starts-roll-out-ai-video-tools-challenging-openai-meta-2024-10-14/

[2] https://slashdot.org/story/24/02/15/2047250/openais-sora-turns-ai-prompts-into-photorealistic-videos



Adobe's pitch to its customers (Score:2)

by BishopBerkeley ( 734647 )

Buy these AI tools that were trained on your work for the purpose of appropriating and obviating your creativity--for the purpose of replacing you.

Re: Adobe's pitch to its customers (Score:2)

by Ceseuron ( 944486 )

Correction: Subscribe to these AI tools, because we at Adobe have long since abandoned our core values of making great creative software and instead prefer to milk our users for that deliciously sweet recurring revenue while the customer gets minimal, if any, improvements to the software.

Re: (Score:2)

by quonset ( 4839537 )

deliciously sweet recurring revenue while the customer gets minimal, if any, improvements to the software.

A perfect description of Acrobat.

I hope I bought the right relish ... zzzzzzzzz ...