Adobe makes an all-out sprint for generative AI, but employees worry that the company will dig its own grave

CTOnews.com July 26 news, Adobe in March this year launched an AI image generation tool Firefly,CTOnews.com has had the relevant experience, the tool has been integrated into many Adobe tools, including Photoshop, users only need a simple text prompt, users are free to modify the elements of the graphics, can improve user productivity to a certain extent.

Wall Street analysts mostly praised Adobe's current embrace of AI, but the response from some Adobe employees was less enthusiastic, with employees generally expressing concern that "AI could take human jobs."

▲ Picture Source Insider according to foreign media Business Insider, an anonymous Adobe senior designer recently announced on the company's internal platform that an advertising company he knew was planning to reduce the size of its graphic design team, mainly because Photoshop added AI-based features.

It is reported that Adobe's main customers are graphic designers, but now Adobe products integrated with AI technology will expel most graphic designers, thus breaking the ecological cycle between designers and software.

Foreign media also claimed that another anonymous employee on Adobe's internal platform said he thought he had become a slave to the AI algorithm because their main job was to polish the works generated by AI.

In an internal staff meeting launched by Adobe in June, Adobe executives did not answer the question that Adobe executives allegedly asked executives "whether generative AI will erode the profits of Adobe's corporate user business."

CTOnews.com found that although Adobe employees complained about the company, the industry used data to show support for Adobe. Adobe's share price has risen 50% this year, topping the BVP Cloud index with a market capitalization of about $235 billion (1.6814 trillion yuan).