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Agency Based Discussion => Adobe Stock => Topic started by: Faustvasea on February 27, 2025, 09:38
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I was expecting this to come after Freepik removed lots of Ai images I have generated. Now the Adobe are following same strategy. Probably they want to offload the tons of Ai duplicates.
Glad that I haven’t wasted money on Ai
We hope this message finds you well.
As part of our commitment to providing the best content discovery experience for both customers and contributors, we have identified duplicates on Adobe Stock that will be removed from the site beginning on March 4, 2025. You are receiving this email because you have 1 or more assets that will be removed.
All removed duplicates can be found in your contributor portal under Uploaded Files - Not Accepted. All assets were evaluated to ensure minimal impact to your portfolio.
Best regards,
Adobe Stock Contributor Relations
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I also received this email, will this affect my seller account?
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I had this email too.
It seems to have binned 15 out of 20 of my last upload batch and nothing else at all. No idea what criteria they used there. Seems very random.
These were real images not AI (aerial shots of tropical rainforest).
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I had this email too.
It seems to have binned 15 out of 20 of my last upload batch and nothing else at all. No idea what criteria they used there. Seems very random.
These were real images not AI (aerial shots of tropical rainforest).
I was expecting to be Ai, because there are more easy to replicate than real images
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If removed and appearing in the "uploaded files not accepted" list, do they appear deep down in the list based on date, or do they appear as new rejections?
For example, if they decide to "unaccept" a file submitted five years ago. Does the rejection appear five years back in the list or does it show up as the latest "rejection"?
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But are these removed files already present now in the "uploaded files not accepted" list, or will we find them starting from March 4th?
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I can't even tell if the images in the list were originally just rejected or getting removed as duplicates. I don't see anything flagged as duplicate, just regular rejections flags, so I guess nothing still shows up as per this email.
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A few of my best sellers were removed as "non-compliant" for use of AI. I don't use AI. I never have. I have sent support a message about that, and plan to re-upload some of them.
Adobe is my best site, I hope they don't crater themselves.
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A few of my best sellers were removed as "non-compliant" for use of AI. I don't use AI. I never have. I have sent support a message about that, and plan to re-upload some of them.
Adobe is my best site, I hope they don't crater themselves.
Sorry to hear. Did the rejections appear as new rejections, or were they deep down in the rejection list commensurate with the time you originally submitted them?
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I received this email too but I don't have any ai images and nothing appears in the rejection list other than what was there before.
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AND, in some cases both of the duplicates were deleted as "already submitted"
how annoying.
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AND, in some cases both of the duplicates were deleted as "already submitted"
how annoying.
52 of my photos and videos are marked for deletion on March 4, 2025. Clips and photos (6 - 7 years old) from the time when I was uploading a whole series. But, yes you are right now... I noticed that they are not only duplicates but the whole batch :)) This action has nothing to do with those generated with AI, I don't have anything like that in my portfolio.
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52 of my photos and videos are marked for deletion on March 4, 2025.
Where do you see this?
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how you know 52? from the mail or where? mail says "1 or more" but i dont see any changes.
AND, in some cases both of the duplicates were deleted as "already submitted"
how annoying.
52 of my photos and videos are marked for deletion on March 4, 2025. Clips and photos (6 - 7 years old) from the time when I was uploading a whole series. But, yes you are right now... I noticed that they are not only duplicates but the whole batch :)) This action has nothing to do with those generated with AI, I don't have anything like that in my portfolio.
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52 of my photos and videos are marked for deletion on March 4, 2025.
Where do you see this?
You you can check under Uploaded files -> Not accepted (section). They are not ordered as they should be...u must click on each of your rejected files and u'll see the reason "similar video(s) already submitted" and start counting :))
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52 of my photos and videos are marked for deletion on March 4, 2025.
Where do you see this?
You you can check under Uploaded files -> Not accepted (section). They are not ordered as they should be...u must click on each of your rejected files and u'll see the reason "similar video(s) already submitted" and start counting :))
It is easy for me because I didn't have many rejections for this reason and I know all my files that are online...same for images :)
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This us Adobe telling us contributors of non-AI... need not apply we no longer want your non-AI content.
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I looked through my rejects. I found 7 listed as removed for similar. Of those I was able to find 2 that were still in my portfolia with a different # and thus I think the correct removal of a duplicate. 2 were images that had quite similar images still in my port. The rest I couldn't find anything particularly similar - unless you consider something like one mountain in Colorado similar to another - which I guess is possible.
so out of 7,
2 completely correct
2 reasonably correct
1 could be argued ok
2 not even close
Other things I found while looking through the rejects - 5 rejected for "non compliant" with mention of " - Non compliant use of another artist’s name.- Undeclared Generative AI Content. or- Content not compliant with overall guidelines" most of these are from before AI images were a possibility and I have never submitted AI images. I don't know if these were previously accepted and then pulled later or never got accepted. Some could have possible IP problems (like a close up of Washington from a dollar bill with bandages on him), but others I just don't know.
The really big takeaway is how arbitrary the rejections are - usually a string in a row for the same reason - focus, quality issues, artifacts, exposure, or aesthetic or commercial appeal of image. With the last reason occasionally given for images that sold well on other sites. Sure, their sandbox, their rules, but looking at the AI dreck they accepted it does make one wonder what they are thinking, or if it is just some algorithm or inspector just clicking a reject reason.
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A few of my best sellers were removed as "non-compliant" for use of AI. I don't use AI. I never have. I have sent support a message about that, and plan to re-upload some of them.
Adobe is my best site, I hope they don't crater themselves.
I got a few of those recections "not flagged as AI" for some of the images from series of macro shots of milk splashes.
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I did not receive this e-mail. Regardless, I still looked at my 'non accepted' files and didn't notice any extras in there. Don't recall seeing any 'similar' rejections.
I don't know why so many people are convinced that this must be related to AI imaging. There's no mention of AI in the e-mail text in the opening post.
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I had this email too.
It seems to have binned 15 out of 20 of my last upload batch and nothing else at all. No idea what criteria they used there. Seems very random.
These were real images not AI (aerial shots of tropical rainforest).
I was expecting to be Ai, because there are more easy to replicate than real images
It's just as easy to produce a similar or nearly identical looking photograph. Simply shoot the same subject twice or more with the same composition. If the camera's mounted to a tripod, the resulting images are going to look the same. Or alternatively - create another copy of a photo file on the computer (Save as) and there you have a duplicate.
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A few of my best sellers were removed as "non-compliant" for use of AI. I don't use AI. I never have.
Terrible stuff and totally unfair. I hope you can appeal.
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A few of my best sellers were removed as "non-compliant" for use of AI. I don't use AI. I never have.
Terrible stuff and totally unfair. I hope you can appeal.
i've had several images labeled as AIgen on several recent batches - support however almost always agrees with the result by changing the rejection reason to 'quality issues'
otoh, SS also issues AIgen rejects but support issues a case # and on re-submitting they are accepted
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IMO Adobe Stock is now treating contributors as poor as other agencies. Adobe's broken review system (for me anyway) has moved me to abandon stock as my main goal for future income prospects.
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how you know 52? from the mail or where? mail says "1 or more" but i dont see any changes.
Find out tomorrow. ;D I went through all of mine and yes I got the same email, and no nothing was recently removed for being similar. I did find one from years ago, which is funny, because it's a one of a kind, background pattern. Just can't wait to see what happens, when they actually start doing this, not just sending an email.
52 of my photos and videos are marked for deletion on March 4, 2025.
Where do you see that?
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I got the email and I have no idea which were removed. Because they could be buried in my pages of rejections somewhere.
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I got the email and I have no idea which were removed. Because they could be buried in my pages of rejections somewhere.
I looked as soon as I got the notice, made a note of how many images were in https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/uploads/rejected Now that it's the 4th, no change in the number of images File Types All. I'm still waiting and watching.
"As part of our commitment to providing the best content discovery experience for both customers and contributors, we have identified duplicates on Adobe Stock that will be removed from the site beginning on March 4, 2025. You are receiving this email because you have 1 or more assets that will be removed.
All removed duplicates can be found in your contributor portal under Uploaded Files - Not Accepted. All assets were evaluated to ensure minimal impact to your portfolio. "
So I still have no answer how people have seen images removed, or a notice of which images, when Adobe says it wasn't going to start until today. If someone has a different link, so I can see where they are seeing changes and removals, I'd like to go look at mine.
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So I still have no answer how people have seen images removed, or a notice of which images, when Adobe says it wasn't going to start until today. If someone has a different link, so I can see where they are seeing changes and removals, I'd like to go look at mine.
Digging deeper i see the same as you, a coincidence batch with rejections (commonish now) but none that i can see removed previously. The count is the same.
So i had the mail but so far have no images gone.
That said, the way AS is going i fully expect to wake up in morning and find 80% of my portfolio scrubbed due to the AI going wild. Quite why they cant tell you which images will be removed or when is mystifying.
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Has anyone had any images removed yet? If so, do they get buried under Not accepted or does Adobe specify which images got removed?
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Has anyone had any images removed yet? If so, do they get buried under Not accepted or does Adobe specify which images got removed?
Yes, they get buried. It is frustrating for somebody like me. I have been uploading to them for close to 20 years and have several thousand online, and over a thousand rejected over the years. Finding the ones that have recently been rejected would be like searching for a needle in a haystack.
I have received three separate emails from them about this over the past few months. In each one, they include in the email a thumbnail of one of the photos that has been removed. As far as I can tell from this, it is because they have different IP standards now than in the past. I have re-uploaded two of the deleted files, designating them as illustrative editorial, and they were accepted.
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To give an example, one of my files that was removed was a photo taken all the way back in 2003! It was the interior of a subway station with the station logos. I re-uploaded it as illustrative editorial.
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I still haven't had any images removed even though I received the email
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Adobe review process is very arrogant. I have bunch of non-editorial now waiting 7 months. Automatic rejections of high quality images accepted everywhere else for vanilla 'quality' reasons, editorial criteria not even their reviewers understand and list goes on now with these removals.
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Senseless rejections caused by faulty and stupid technology. Contempt for skilled photographers, they prefer artificial productions now. The human is now absent to restore common sense, their blunders can no longer be contested (you will only get a stupid and robotic answer). Are there only idiots left at Adobe? They're pathetic.
Now I can only wish for their decline, the other agencies must win back their disappointed clients.
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I still haven't had any images removed even though I received the email
I did it the easy way and checked the number of "Not Accepted" as soon as I got the email. The number has not changed.
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since yesterday i noticed these rejections. e.g. "chocolate on white background". i uploaded 3, 10 days ago. 3 accepted.
Yesterday 1 was then rejected for "similarity".
And today the other 2 rejected too for "similarity".
So.. none of the "chocolate" images is left accepted. lol that is weird. Multiple cases like that. Depressing.
And i noticed more rejections for "similarity" for images uploaded 5 months ago. Unique, but a batch of the same topic with same titles. But i don't know.
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I've got 6 mo, 4 mo and 3 month waiting files, the rest seem to get reviewed in a few weeks. I had a few more in the 2 month range, but they did get reviewed. No obvious reason why these particular images seem stuck, but they aren't particularly seasonal or ones I expect great sales so I'm not too bent about it.
If I waited for the 6 month one to get reviewed before uploading I might never upload again.
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No images removed, I think they sent the email to everybody.
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I think that they just haven't gotten around to all those they sent emails to
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I just had one removed, the reason said it was against Adobe's guidelines. Don't know if that means it was because of duplicate content.
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over last month or so i've had < 1% images removed and added > 1000 (w >500 in 'review' )
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I got the email and I have no idea which were removed. Because they could be buried in my pages of rejections somewhere.
Yes, absolutely buried.
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I guess they're not too concerned with mass AI spam similars (unflagged as AI) if this profile is anything to go by:
https://stock.adobe.com/sg/search/images?creator_id=206533842&filters[content_type:photo]=1&filters[content_type:illustration]=1&filters[content_type:zip_vector]=1&filters[content_type:video]=1&filters[content_type:template]=1&filters[content_type:3d]=1&filters[content_type:audio]=0&filters[include_stock_enterprise]=0&filters[is_editorial]=0&filters[fetch_excluded_assets]=1&filters[content_type:image]=1&order=relevance&limit=100&search_type=pagination&search_page=1&load_type=page&get_facets=0
How many Oysters with fluffy meaningless, inaccurate AI descriptions to you need? Or cakes. Or errr well, you get the idea.
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I guess they're not too concerned with mass AI spam similars (unflagged as AI) if this profile is anything to go by:
https://stock.adobe.com/sg/search/images?creator_id=206533842&filters[content_type:photo]=1&filters[content_type:illustration]=1&filters[content_type:zip_vector]=1&filters[content_type:video]=1&filters[content_type:template]=1&filters[content_type:3d]=1&filters[content_type:audio]=0&filters[include_stock_enterprise]=0&filters[is_editorial]=0&filters[fetch_excluded_assets]=1&filters[content_type:image]=1&order=relevance&limit=100&search_type=pagination&search_page=1&load_type=page&get_facets=0
How many Oysters with fluffy meaningless, inaccurate AI descriptions to you need? Or cakes. Or errr well, you get the idea.
That's horrendously spammed portfolio. Yikes
How is this kind of garbage accepted???
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I just had another photo removed (happens daily now), that had been apporved over a year ago and the rejection reason is:
"Thank you for submitting your image. Unfortunately, we were unable to process your file. Contact us for more information."
This is absurd.
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The rejection rate is also beyond absurdism.
I have now almost 1700 rejected images, about 1000 since last 3 weeks.
Absolutely ridiculous since my earnings and downloads increased a lot the last weeks and the rejected images have all the same quality like my best sellers.
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The rejection rate is also beyond absurdism.
I have now almost 1700 rejected images, about 1000 since last 3 weeks.
Absolutely ridiculous since my earnings and downloads increased a lot the last weeks and the rejected images have all the same quality like my best sellers.
Ooooooh!!! Pooooor little AI prompter... We feel so sorry for you.
I hope next step for Adobe is mass deleting images in AI portfolios.
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I just had another photo removed (happens daily now), that had been apporved over a year ago and the rejection reason is:
"Thank you for submitting your image. Unfortunately, we were unable to process your file. Contact us for more information."
This is absurd.
And if you contacted them, you'd probably get automated response with link pointing to common problems page that has no relation whatsoever to your issue.
I had just one removal, but I upload very little, 10-12/month on average. But yes rejections are ridiculous. That's probably not even because of reviewers (3rd party company). They just got orders to "be very strict about quality" (or something like that). So, in order to appear they are doing their job, they just reject left and right, maybe even without looking.
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I have 866 images removed last Friday, 40% of my adobe portfolio, many top sellers
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Doea anyone have any idea when Adobe will start image inspections? I have hundreds just sitting there doing nothing which are actively selling elsewhere. Please for the love of God start inspecting images and quit removing perfectly good selling images.