My latest.  (Just the Xmas ones in the top row)

For anyone who has had files removed and can't work out why, please can you check to see if they were duplicates? Do you still have the same files in your portfolio, with file numbers that are different to the ones that have been moved to the Not Accepted tab?

Quote from: TortoiseProductions on April 14, 2025, 16:09

Quote from: synthetick on April 14, 2025, 01:08

For anyone who has had files removed and can't work out why, please can you check to see if they were duplicates? Do you still have the same files in your portfolio, with file numbers that are different to the ones that have been moved to the Not Accepted tab?

Maybe I'm missing something, but how can we check? I don't record the ID numbers Adobe assigns to files and there's no way that I know of to check back on what files I've uploaded after they've gone through the review process.

I've dug through the 2 my husband got rejected and notice there is one image in each batch uploaded (1 batch of 6 uploaded 9.20, the other batch of 8 uploaded 4.19) that is missing from his portfolio. Is it possible an image got double tapped while uploading? Possible, maybe, but at this late date there's no way I could know for sure without having a accept/reject list from those dates.

At least for the files that I have noticed were removed with duplicates, if you find the file in the rejected list ( https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/uploads/rejected ) - sadly you need to look at them all to find which ones were removed via audit because obviously it would be too hard to let us search by rejection date or tell us which images were removed when they send us the letter.

mine were listed as rejected for "audit removal: incompatible with terms" - note the image id # and then go and search for the image in the whole database or more easily in your own port and if you can find it see if the image # is different.

Quote from: Raul.Ceron on April 15, 2025, 02:27

As part of our ongoing commitment to enhance the content discovery experience for both customers and contributors, we have identified and are removing duplicate files on Adobe Stock. You should have received an email regarding this update on February 27, 2025. All assets have been carefully evaluated to ensure minimal impact on your portfolio.

Thats what the email says but many of us are getting things removed that arent duplicates.

Exactly what criteria is used here - is it identical image, similar images, similar metadata?  Is it fully automated or human audited?

Also, please can we have a filter on the rejected page to see which have gone rather than have to manually trawl through page after page of normal rejections over the last decade?

As part of our ongoing commitment to enhance the content discovery experience for both customers and contributors, we have identified and are removing duplicate files on Adobe Stock. You should have received an email regarding this update on February 27, 2025. All assets have been carefully evaluated to ensure minimal impact on your portfolio.

I am lucky that only twelve of my images removed thus far (portfolio of 7400 images). I was, however, annoyed that one of the removed images was one of my all-time bestsellers. I searched for this image on the main Adobe page and find it still online, but not under my name.

It was stolen by �Designpics� and here is the image:

https://stock.adobe.com/za/images/greyhounds-at-full-speed-during-a-race/609179796

I looked through this portfolio of 100 pages and find many more of my images. Obviously a portfolio of stolen images. Those of you searching for removed images and find them still online, make sure they are under your name and not stolen.

Quote from: Eco on April 15, 2025, 01:13

I am lucky that only twelve of my images removed thus far (portfolio of 7400 images). I was, however, annoyed that one of the removed images was one of my all-time bestsellers. I searched for this image on the main Adobe page and find it still online, but not under my name.

It was stolen by �Designpics� and here is the image:

https://stock.adobe.com/za/images/greyhounds-at-full-speed-during-a-race/609179796

I looked through this portfolio of 100 pages and find many more of my images. Obviously a portfolio of stolen images. Those of you searching for removed images and find them still online, make sure they are under your name and not stolen.

You can't compete. He is a "premium" user, and his duplicates don't suffer from the new algorithm treatment.
https://stock.adobe.com/za/search?creator_id=206467774&search_page=91

Edit: In just a few clicks, I also found stolen photos from my collection. 
So... Adobe deletes the original photos of the authors, and preserves the copies sent by the thieves, it's disgusting!
Description and keywords have been changed by the thief.
Programming an algorithm to detect fraudulent uploads of existing photos would be possible to do. Why doesn't Adobe do this??? Adobe likes thieves, not photographers???

(Those are not my pictures in the screenshot, just to show duplicates and that he has a premium account)

Quote from: gnirtS on April 15, 2025, 11:09

That's about an obvious a stolen account portfolio as you'll ever see. The variety, the dodgy descriptions in bad English etc.
A very very quick search on one of my areas yielded at least 4 of my images on the first 3 pages.

Adobe makes money selling stolen photos (of course, the original author is never compensated), so isn't the company aren't the companies complicit if there's no anticipatory action taken from their part against this phenomenon?

The least Adobe could do is to list the removed images properly. Now we have no idea what exactly has been removed.
Looking at the couple of removed images (have only seen 2) I'm wondering if Adobe is possibly getting ready to offer illustrative editorial images as material for AI?? Those removed images MAYBE show recognizable incidental people at 200-300% (but hardly so at 100%).