Firefly is the family of creative
generative AI models powering Adobe products. Firefly offers new ways to ideate, create, and communicate while significantly improving creative workflows. It’s the natural extension of the technology Adobe has produced over the past 40 years, driven by the belief that people should be empowered to bring their ideas into the world precisely as they imagine them.
Firefly uses commercially-safe datasets, including licensed and public domain content where copyright has expired, and does not train on customer data. Additionally, as a founding collaborator of the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), Adobe is setting the industry standard for responsible generative AI. The CAI is a community of media and tech companies, NGOs, academics, and others working to promote adoption of an open industry standard for content authenticity and provenance. Enterprise users can enforce brand safety by deploying Firefly Custom Models trained on approved assets, and Firefly also supports Content Credentials, which attach origin and editing metadata to every AI-generated file for transparency and review.
Find out more about content credentials.
Firefly offers a scalable, secure entry point into generative AI for creative operations. It supports rapid content creation, personalization, and localization while respecting brand and legal requirements. Firefly can be integrated into a broader content supply chain strategy, enabling businesses to operationalize AI while maintaining control, compliance, and consistency.
Firefly is built around Adobe’s Generative AI User Guidelines and governance frameworks, incorporating industry-aligned features — like opt-out controls, transparency via Content Credentials, and alignment with policy initiatives like Content Authenticity.
The current Firefly generative AI models were trained on licensed content, such as Adobe Stock, along with public domain content where copyright has expired.
Adobe offers Custom Models, which are ways for creators to train the models with their own assets, so they can generate content that matches their unique style, branding, and design language without the influence of other creators’ content.
Adobe will continue to listen to and work with the creative community to address future developments to the Firefly training models.
No. We do not train our Firefly generative AI models on any Creative Cloud or Adobe Experience Cloud subscribers’ personal content.
We’re continually working on bringing Firefly into Creative Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Adobe Document Cloud. Features powered by Firefly can currently be found inside Adobe Express, Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe Stock, and
firefly.adobe.comUsing your Adobe ID or federated ID, you can access the Firefly web app to experiment with all the different available capabilities.
For features without the beta label, you can use outputs generated from Firefly in your commercial projects. For features that are in beta, you can use the outputs generated from Firefly for your commercial projects unless explicitly stated otherwise in the product.
As with the use of all Creative Cloud products and services, Firefly outputs cannot be used in an illegal manner (including to infringe or violate the rights of others) or in connection with creating, training, or otherwise improving AI and machine learning models. Learn more
Yes, if the organization has purchased the appropriate entitlement, which will require a new contracting event, subject to the applicable terms, conditions, and exclusions.
Learn moreEnterprise customers may purchase an entitlement that comes with contractual IP indemnification for select Firefly outputs through the Adobe Express and Firefly site license or through certain Creative Cloud for enterprise plans.
Contact us to learn more.This depends on the laws of your local jurisdiction. If you’re interested in learning more about this issue, check out this
Copyright Alliance blog post by Adobe’s lead copyright attorney.