Many comments here that this "makes sense." Free does not make sense! If I'm not paying for it I'm not the customer anymore.
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"Your content in Affinity isn’t used to train AI features — we can’t access local files. For content you choose to upload to Canva, you’re in control. You can review and update your preferences any time in Canva settings."
The only nuance I can think of here is that if you are using the cloud AI tools, you are uploading content. But it's largely hypocritical to complain about AI tools being trained on your content. They were trained on everyone else's.
IE: You're in control of what you upload. What happens after it's on their servers? What happens when they send it to a partner for processing?
The AI industry is filled with liars. It's basically "we're not using you data for training, that was a partner we pay that trained using your data." Good luck finding out who actually used your data for training when more than one company had access to it.
They mean there are two privacy toggles that control it. They ask, you can change your answer.
> AI-powered features can learn and improve with your general usage
> When this setting is on, Canva and our trusted partners will use information about your general usage to help AI-powered features learn and improve. This includes how you interact and create with Canva products, but not your content.
> AI-powered features can learn and improve with your content
> We want to develop better AI features to help improve the way you create it in Canva. We have strict controls and policies in place to protect yours and your Team’s content when building AI, but we still won’t use it without your consent.
Beyond these, I don't know. Or really care, since I won't be using those tools.