Adobe says its Windows apps won’t use AI to auto-scan your documents
Adobe’s AI Assistant does not scan your documents behind your back, company promises
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Adobehas recently faced scrutiny over concerns that its AI features within Acrobat and Reader may be secretly scanning documents. However, according toWindows Latest, citing a response from the company, that’s not the case.
The confusion stems from Adobedocumentationon its new AI-powered features, which reads: “The generative AI features in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader are turned on by default. However, you can choose to turn them off, if necessary.”
Following concerns shared by security reporterBrian Krebs, the controversy gained further traction on social platforms like Reddit where users expressed privacy and security concerns.
Adobe’s AI won’t scan your documents
In response toWindows Latest, Adobe affirmed that “turned on by default” simply means that the tools are available to eligible users as standard, and not that the apps will automatically scan through your documents.
With Adobe’sAI toolsbuilt into Acrobat and Reader, documents are only scanned once a user agrees to the terms and actively engages with the AI by performing a task such as summary generation.
Adobe’s VP of Product Management, Deepak Bharadwaj, added in a statement toWindows Latest:
“Like other Adobe AI features, Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant was developed and deployed in alignment with Adobe’s AI principles of accountability, responsibility and transparency. In addition, the features are governed by data security, privacy and AI ethics protocols and no customer content is used to train LLMs without customers’ consent.”
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Bharadwaj added that millions of users have already used Adobe’s AI Assistant to answer questions and generate summaries and insights.
Unwilling to just take Adobe’s word for it,Windows Latestalso conducted its own test and found that the rumors suggesting that all documents are automatically scanned are “baseless.”
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