Are people turned off by AI images? Have Dreamstime only recently started accepting AI or are they just not promoting them nearly as much?

No, people are (sadly) not turned off by AI images. On Adobe my AI images sell much more than regular photos, even though I have much more real photos than AI photos.
No, they didn't only start accepting AI recently. I thing Dreamstime was even the first agency to officially accept AI images?

I do not know why they don't sell so well on Dreamstime. I indeed don't sell many AI images there - but I don't sell many images on Dreamstime in general, AI or not.

I think they indeed don't get promoted/ranked in the search the same way as on Adobe. I just looked for a random keyword and there was not a single (at least obvious) AI image on the first page of "most relevant" - which is the default search setting there - and also not one with the "best selling" setting. There were a lot of AI images under "latest upload". When I search for the same keyword on Adobe I get a mixture of both AI images and real photos on the first page with the default search setting for "relevant".

Maybe it's really just the fact that Dreamstime doesn't sell as many images as Adobe in general, so new images don't move up to the "most relevant" serach results as fast as they do on Adobe and therefore don't show up in the default search results so much - and therefore don't get sold much.

Dreamstime does not allow the use of AI-generated people. Maybe that is the reason they are not selling so much, and other types of AI images do sell, like landscapes, objects, abstract stuff.

Dreamstime does not allow the use of AI-generated people. Maybe that is the reason they are not selling so much, and other types of AI images do sell, like landscapes, objects, abstract stuff.

I do not think that's the reason. I only have very few AI generated images of people, but my non-people AI images sell a lot there.