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Agency Based Discussion => Adobe Stock => Topic started by: gnirtS on November 30, 2023, 23:39
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https://petapixel.com/2023/11/27/adobe-stock-changes-policy-on-ai-images-depciting-real-events/
From older article here: https://petapixel.com/2023/11/07/adobe-stock-is-selling-ai-generated-images-of-the-israel-hamas-conflict/
A "policy change" isnt going to do anything. Vast numbers of people are submitting AI fully aware of the policies and rules, have no intention of following them and have no chance of getting caught.
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It would be nice to have more feedback from Adobe about what is allowed and what not.
Because some of the examples in the new article, to my understanding, do not break Adobe's new AI rule, like "a girl holding his (sic) teddy bear with destructive civilian area during war time, sorrow scenery of war victims, idea for support children’s right" or the BLM protest image.
They show concepts but do not claim to be taken at a particular place or a particular time at any particular real event.
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The girl with the teddy bear is one of 42 similar genAI images you get with a search for girl teddy bear ukraine - sad children in a war zone with a teddy bear.
This clearly isn't in Ukraine or in a war zone and it's the keywords that lead you to it not the title. One of the (unanswered) questions I asked in the thread about the new policy was whether keywords counted - which I think they clearly should. Keywords also determine what shows up for a buyer when they search.
child teddy bear war results in 632 genAI images; child gaza 938 images, gaza 4,323, palestine 10,069. These aren't for tourism promotion...
Not only has nothing been removed since the "change of policy" but the number of pseudo-editorial images has grown - one thousand more gaza images in 6 days, for example.
A rule without any enforcement is just a CYA maneuver.
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Strange no one that seems upset about this hasn't replied to the following.
If it is clearly labelled as genAI, a concept, etc - and is not deliberately misleading (i.e., it doesn't say "live footage" or "real photo taken on such & such a date"), then the onus is on the person USING the image to use it in the proper context and not deliberately mislead, otherwise it gets really stupid.
Because then one could argue that ANY kind of "stock footage", "photos", etc that is not "editorial", or a "candid" shot - could be "misleading", etc. You don't actually think those hundreds of thousands of "diverse, african, arabic, mexican, disabled, missing arms, midget, giant, obese fat and skinny group of smiling co-workers doing business presentations" are actually CANDID photos, do you? Yet - they are used by businesses trying to portray a "diverse" image to get money ala "ESG" "goals" (and that term "diverse" is so annoyingly overused, but completely different topic).
"News" organizations unfortunately most of the time deliberately "at best" mislead, and in normal times outright lie, deceive, manipulate, etc to change public policy, shape people's perception and views of things, etc, etc. Most of the major outlets are indirectly/directly owned by blackrock/vanguard/statestreet - whose pretty much have a very specific agenda of promoting the following stories (and the reason they do it is for a psychotic desire for control and "monnay"):
- "Climate change" <cough cough> SUPER "real" and "scary" (of COURSE "not" manufactured <cough cough> by sky spray, chemicals, wind turbines, deliberately set "forestfires", via NUMEROUS patents readily available for reading, etc, etc) you should be an obedient worker and stop traveling & stay at home. But of course, we billionaires with the superjets need to fly privately, and use a different jet to bring our limosines to discuss the "crisis". And of course "climate change" was called "global warming" until some people would clue in and realize it got cold sometimes. So now "climate change" can mean cold OR hot... hmm. how was the temperature yesterday compared to today?
- "War" "super real and scary", so you should "hide in your homes, be obedient workers", because surely its not <cough cough> manufactured used for redirecting hundreds of BILLIONS of wealth from citizens via "aid", trying to promote the "digital ID" for your "safety & protection". While of course, we "leaders" pose for pictures and photo ops in "war torn zones" - because the enemy realizes OF COURSE that when it is a photo op - that means it is a "cease fire" time, and not a good time to attack. (Yes - sadly some REGULAR people, i.e., soldiers and/or citizens have been manipulated and abused into thinking they are doing good, when the fact is most of the time they are being USED and MANIPULATED, and injured or more, and there are real people getting hurt, which obviously is very sad/bad - but they are being USED - and it is not what is portrayed on t.v./the "media", etc). (Yes, people do fight, yes, people do get hurt - but again - they are being manipulated and USED into doing that by the people that OWN the armies)
- "AI" "super scary", so better line up for your universal basic income check, hide in your home, do as you are told, and be obedient. Not that <cough cough> first of all, its not true "ai" - its sophisticated theft, (b) the people trying to "scare" you about "ai" are the same people that OWN the "ai companies" and promoting the crap out of it, and that they purpose of their "digital id" is to track you like cattle ("herd" mentality), and count "livestock", etc.
- and of course, many peoples "favorite" such that they almost believe it (not factually, just a belief) like a religion, "SUPER SCARY virus", better hide in your homes, be obedient, get a poison shot injected into you, for your "safety & protection"... but apparently this virus is SUPER SMART, and can count ppl @ a table (6 or less), need to shove a "6" INCH stick up your nose to touch your BRAIN detect because it is FANTASTIC at hiding, yet SO DANGEROUS, muthst wear a mathsk at all timehtshs, and need to stay "6" feet away because, well, the "virus" can only go 5'11", and then runs out of petrol... (and btw, if you hadn't noticed the repetition of the #6, its very blatant/obvious/in your face, because the people promoting that are trying to mock you/make fun of you, because they have a very high opinion of themselves and think they are super smart while other people are super dumb)...
Mainstream "NEWS" DELIBERATELY misleads. Not only to push the above agendas, - but for "monnay"... they CRAVE people clicking on those scary clickbait headlines, so they can collect countless pennies from every ad you view and click...
If the image (whether stock or genai) is clearly labelled as a stock photo/portray of a concept, and not misleading itself - then it is fine. It is up to the person USING the image not to deliberately misuse/abuse the image(s)/video(s)/etc. Onus is on THEM.
Otherwise - at what point do you stop the "nannying"?
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“ Stock content should always be clearly marked when used in editorial content to help ensure people are not misled into thinking a real event is being depicted by the stock content “
What if the stock content represents a real event?