Knock knock knock!... Adobe? Are you there?... Can you hear read me? 

Hem, here is a good idea for you. Here is a nice possible future "Excitings News"! 

Why not make the contributors pay for validation of their images? Hey!!! Isn�t this a good idea???
let say... hem... $0.10 per image for getting priority validation. Maybe you could also plan a monthly package for pro members with unlimited uploads?
Of course, we suppose well that finance is not your main concern. But I'm sure you would help some of your contributors feel privileged by offering them a choice, to have more control over their content. They would select the best of their production. They would still be free to refuse after all.
Of course, you would refund the money if the image was not validated.

There is a good future for all, we all know this. 

Meanwhile over at Shutterstock it only takes 48 hours max...

And as for the professional aspect, Shutterstock KNOWS how to differentiate between photography and AI-generated images. Incredible, right? It makes the professionalism of Adobe owners who do not want to understand that AI images are not photographs seem a bit ridiculous. We remember the seriousness of this company -unfortunately-in the past.



Update:
Shutterstock:  1.32% of AI images for 98.68% real photos
Adobe:           18.68% of AI images for 81.32% real photos

We can see a glaring difference in policy here.
Autonomous AI will be the future of Adobe (sorry for you AI prompters). 

But...... wait... doesn't shutterstock NOT "accept" ai content? If they don't... then... why do they have an "ai" filter?

Maybe they just have the idea that selling AI images is not necessarily linked to a remuneration of contributors busy generating them. It's obvious, we are only living in a transitional moment. Microstock agencies will become largely autonomous. Doing without contributor royalties, a good deal for them!
You really have to be blind to yourself not to be aware of this.

This is why, oddly enough, the future is maybe better assured for photographers producing quality and authentic subjects than for AI prompters, which will quickly be replaced by autonomous systems.
In any case, the good times are inexorably at our backs.

Maybe they just have the idea that selling AI images is not necessarily linked to a remuneration of contributors busy generating them. It's obvious, we are only living in a transitional moment. Microstock agencies will become largely autonomous. Doing without contributor royalties, a good deal for them!
You really have to be blind to yourself not to be aware of this.

This is why, oddly enough, the future is maybe better assured for photographers producing quality and authentic subjects than for AI prompters, which will quickly be replaced by autonomous systems.
In any case, the good times are inexorably at our backs.

I tend to agree. The new trick with Adobe is to get us to use five words to describe an image just to login. My bet going forward for most stock images (not all) is that when one searches for "ripe organic red merlot grape" as an example then an image will automatically be generated by Adobe and others in the future so that they can feed of our content and not pay us a royalty going forward. It'll take a few years yet, but that is the direction its going in.

Quote from: f8 on September 10, 2024, 19:07

Quote from: DiscreetDuck on September 10, 2024, 15:18

Maybe they just have the idea that selling AI images is not necessarily linked to a remuneration of contributors busy generating them. It's obvious, we are only living in a transitional moment. Microstock agencies will become largely autonomous. Doing without contributor royalties, a good deal for them!
You really have to be blind to yourself not to be aware of this.

This is why, oddly enough, the future is maybe better assured for photographers producing quality and authentic subjects than for AI prompters, which will quickly be replaced by autonomous systems.
In any case, the good times are inexorably at our backs.

I tend to agree. The new trick with Adobe is to get us to use five words to describe an image just to login. My bet going forward for most stock images (not all) is that when one searches for "ripe organic red merlot grape" as an example then an image will automatically be generated by Adobe and others in the future so that they can feed of our content and not pay us a royalty going forward. It'll take a few years yet, but that is the direction its going in.

Sure! others already took the direction:

In a few seconds at 123rf, zero royalty paid to anyone:
and the 3 apples are offered! 

As they write in the numerous emails they sent: "✨Stop Scrolling, Start Generating✨"

And Shutterstock offer, zero royalty paid either. Customer pays $0.015 per image:

If you know your grapes, most of those are not merlot. Especially the one with the three apples.

Grapes can be good.  If processed properly then bottled in liquid form