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Adobe Stock / Re: Generative AI updates from Adobe VP Matt Smith
« Last post by cascoly on Yesterday at 15:27 »
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Even with just one AI-generated pixel,do I still have to label the content as AI? :D

don't underestimate single pixels --after all, the sophons are omniscient proton-sized nanobots
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Off Topic / Re: This should settle some different opinions
« Last post by stoker2014 on Yesterday at 15:25 »
Bradley IFVs were spotted being loaded onto trucks in Rzeszw, Poland (~100 km) from the Ukraine-Poland border.

https://twitter.com/OSINTNic/status/1782653650935877961

 8)

ps.
better later than never
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Adobe Stock / Re: Great sales day - should I be worried?
« Last post by Injustice for all on Yesterday at 15:13 »
I've read a lot recently about people getting their accounts suspended for 'irregular sales activity', so it's actually made me worry that a great sales day could end badly.

I've had a large series of images downloaded and, although this has happened before on other sites, it's the first time it's happened to this extent on Adobe.

I'm assuming the sales are legitimate, and I'm not looking to suddenly cash out the earnings, but should I be reporting this to someone just in case? Maybe @MatHayward could advise if there is anything I need to do?

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Great to hear some are doing well. Adobe is where most my sales are made however this week was terrible. Only made 1.78 😢 oh well

a poor week means nothing, in March 2024 did you earn more than March 2023? in 2023 did you earn more than in 2022? then above all are you working?do you produce content every day or almost every day at least?microstock is no longer a passive income,it was years ago.

Thank you this changed my perspective, yes I actually sold more this week compared to last year and am actively uploading at least 3 times a week and creating new content.

Thank you!

mine were just rhetorical questions because in the end what matters is how much you earn at least in a month compared to the same month of the previous year,and it is certainly important to be active contributors.

I'm glad that the trend is on the rise for you too!sorry if you can all my questions! :)
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One thing I wanted to highlight,I think there should be more clarity on when to label content as AI.

Maybe I missed something,since at the moment I'm more focused on real content,but for example,with the real subject and the AI ​​generated background,should the content still be labeled as AI?

If I correct only part of the image using generative fill,leaving the subject and much of the image real,do I still have to label the content as AI?

here all this is not very clear to me,and I think many are asking themselves the same question,and up to now I have only created completely AI or completely real content,to be safe and not make mistakes.

Even with just one AI-generated pixel,do I still have to label the content as AI? :D
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the images Adobe used came from Adobe's collection not Midjourney,and have an owner who was paid,then whether they generated other images from Midjourney,to train Firefly,we don't know,but even in this case it is not a stolen image,but the product of a stolen image,therefore a completely different image from the stolen one,stolen not by Adobe but by Midjourney.

There is already a huge difference in this.

Midjourney literally stole content for its own training,without even bothering to remove logos,signatures,watermarks,not paying anything to anyone,and asking substantial sums for subscriptions.

Firefly paid for all the content used,they didn't steal anything from anyone,and they didn't upload content with logos,signatures and watermarks,also leaving free access to the platform for months.

There is a completely different approach from Adobe in every thing and circumstance,it seems clear to me.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Generative AI updates from Adobe VP Matt Smith
« Last post by pancaketom on Yesterday at 14:09 »
While firefly might be the most ethical - it is still trained off of images made with programs that were trained with unethically sourced data - scraping the entire web. So second generation unethical. Also the first round of training used the AS collection without asking the artists. After that there was an opt out - but the data had already been used. Legally they might have covered enough bases, but ethical - well, sort of.

If it doesn't produce images with logos that is a testament to how well they curated the images they used to train - not the ethics of it. Still an improvement, but not necessarily ethical.

Adobe is in the interesting position to be both trying to sell to the artists that create content and make them obsolete with generative AI  - or at least convince investors they can do both.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe has blocked my account
« Last post by RalfLiebhold on Yesterday at 14:08 »
The best way is to contact Adobe via the MatHayward PM in the forum.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe has blocked my account
« Last post by DiscreetDuck on Yesterday at 13:58 »
This seems extremely shocking.   :o
Really, I doubt Adobe would do this sort of thing lightly.
Your portfolio had 200k images in 2021, 50k in 2024?
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Adobe Stock / Re: Great sales day - should I be worried?
« Last post by Camillo on Yesterday at 13:47 »
I've read a lot recently about people getting their accounts suspended for 'irregular sales activity', so it's actually made me worry that a great sales day could end badly.

I've had a large series of images downloaded and, although this has happened before on other sites, it's the first time it's happened to this extent on Adobe.

I'm assuming the sales are legitimate, and I'm not looking to suddenly cash out the earnings, but should I be reporting this to someone just in case? Maybe @MatHayward could advise if there is anything I need to do?

.

Great to hear some are doing well. Adobe is where most my sales are made however this week was terrible. Only made 1.78 😢 oh well

a poor week means nothing, in March 2024 did you earn more than March 2023? in 2023 did you earn more than in 2022? then above all are you working?do you produce content every day or almost every day at least?microstock is no longer a passive income,it was years ago.

Thank you this changed my perspective, yes I actually sold more this week compared to last year and am actively uploading at least 3 times a week and creating new content.

Thank you!
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If it was my food magazine I would make an important point that everything we print or write about is real content. It would be a major point for us.

There will be other magazines that don't care and that is their choice.

true, but we already have this problem with 'real' images - several instances recently where photos of older protests are presented as taking place now ( sometimes the photos are not even from the same country)

or with deepfakes that use traditional photoshop techniques

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