Half of the images displayed on the first page for almost any search term are images "generated with AI". 5% of all images in the database are displayed as "generated with AI".
The trend is crystal clear: AI is preferred. At some point, AI will generate images "generated with AI". Then there will be no need to pay for images. Maximum profit for agencies - that's the goal.

Wilm, the exciting question here is: Does Adobe actively push the images in the ranking or are AI images more popular and bought more often?

In the first case, it would be quite a slap in the face for the established contributors.

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I am surprised no one has talked about the new mission yet?
500 to 1000 pictures of "a single individual in front of a greenscreen" for $80.
Minimum of 500 images of one person per submission.

I think this mission is even more bold of Adobe.
It requires a model including release and a green screen. The mission info also says the greenscreen must be a "solid greenscreen background with no wrinkles and shadows" so it will require a proper fixed greenscreen and not just some green cloth hanging on the wall and for the "no shadows" it require proper studio light equipment. So this seems like it's aimed more for the photographers with proper studio equipment.
I do have some studio equipment, but even for me these photos usually require lots of post-processing to make sure there are no wrinkles visible in the backdrop or no shadows.

And it comes down to a payment of $40 for 5000-1000 images per person involved in the shooting. I know the food missions also required a second person, but taking 50 photos of someone's hand choppong food is a different task than having one person do 500 different poses for the camera.

I am really curious to know how many professional studio photographers are willing to do 500+ photos for 40$. In my opinion the payment offered for this mission should have been much higher.

I can't see anymore the "mission" option in my dashboard, so it seems that I was approved for only few days for previous missions, but now I'm out...
What?? 

Oh, that's strange. Since I did not take part in any of the last missions I thought there was no specific reason why I should get new missions, but others wouldn't, so I thought everyone had them.
Don't you have a new "missions" tab in your dashboard? It's in the black top line.

I had the missions last week, and kept the tab open, when I refreshed the page I got

"
{
    "code": 113,
    "message": "User is not a member of any mission request"
}
"

For the greenscreen one, if you had a good greenscreen setup in a studio you could just take video for a few minutes doing high speed poses and then pull every 10th image out or something similar to help train our replacements.