On Friday May 31st, the Ansel Adams Trust took to social media, telling Adobe “You are officially on our last nerve with this behavior.” The threads post received more than 2,800 likes, and Adobe responded the following day promising that their team had successfully removed the content.
However, this wasn’t the last of what Adams’ estate had to say. They clarified that they’d been trying to take down similar images from the Stock site since last August.
“Assuming you want to be taken seriously” the estate proclaimed online, “re: your purported commitment to ethical, responsible AI, while demonstrating respect for the creative community, we invite you to become proactive about complaints like ours, & to stop putting the onus on individual artists/artists’ estates to continuously police our IP on your platform, on your terms. It’s past time to stop wasting resources that don’t belong to you.”
