AI is setting off a great scramble for data

Not so long ago analysts were openly wondering whether artificial intelligence (AI) would be the death of Adobe, a maker of software for creative types. New tools like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney, which conjure up pictures from text, seemed set to render Adobe’s image-editing offerings redundant. As recently as April, Seeking Alpha, a financial news site, published an article headlined “Is AI the Adobe killer?”

Far from it. Adobe has used…