They take your descriptions on ADOBE and feed them into midjourney. And many of them have public accounts, so now the prompt and the resulting image are publicly visible.

Even if your midjourney account is private, your descriptions on Adobe are public. Hence my suggestion to adjust your descriptions so it will not generate a copy on midjourney.

A lot of ai people just copy each other, what you think are copies from your port might be an endless stream of copies from people copying others.

I now have extremely generic prompts "Beautiful easter eggs with copy space" but nothing special that will generate a duplicate.

They can still take a screen shot and ask midjourney for a description. But when I tried that with my own images, the results were very different photos.

I used to have copy cats on istock, especially when istock marked high selling images with little flames. As soon as one of my new images got a flame it was copied by at least 10 ports.

And while I do "simple still life" with easter eggs and flowers, the precise composition can make the difference between earning thousands of dollars or nothing. It often takes me a whole day in studio for 2-3 really, really good images.

I understand the frustration with copy cats. But your first post was not very helpful, sorry.

Adjusting your descriptions is the only useful suggestion I have. Some people also add slightly misleading keywords in the title. It still describes the image, but will generate something very different with midjourney.

My description for that image will not result in a prompt that will resemble my bestseller image, since it was mostly hand-drawn. (I tried it after I�ve read your post)  But �describe� eventually will.

However , I tried it on my MJ generated images and you are correct, even I don�t put prompts as my description, if description is detailed, v6 now easy spits out very similar images. Good to know not to put detailed descriptions.

Good point about misleading words as well, I didn�t think of that. I also see some bestsellers from others with a 3 word descriptions, does description even counts? Or it�s mostly keywords?

So it seems, (mostly) hand-drawn illustrations do have at least that going for them, not easily copied � for now.

2-10 files a day if they are really good quality and widely useful is more than enough to build a very good income.

I have seen people with less than 1000 photos making more than 10k a month. For years.

While the environment has changed from 10 years ago, portfolios where literally EVERY SINGLE FILE is a true bestseller quality will greatly outsell all those ports with 70k files filled with 1000s of extreme similars.

You can read that in various groups, new ai producers with 50k+ files cannot even make a weekly payout.

All agencies promote "efficient" portfolios, i.e. with a good factor of sales to portfolio size.

If you just have volume but no sales, you will sink your own boat.

So best of luck to you. If you have great ideas, you will always outrun the copy cats.

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I spend two days of time to find these accounts... and there are many...

These people stealing default effects in apps like kinemaster and uploading them on shutterstock..

And it seems most of these accounts created by only one person( I am saying this based on portfolio names, and time frame when these accounts created, and same content uploaded to all the accounts).

all these videos combines 50000-60000.

If you search "Green Screen" for videos on shutterstock.... you get 6,00,000 results... it means 10% of green screen videos uploaded by these thieves selling on shutterstock... And all the content is stolen from apps like kinemaster, and exactly same content in all accounts...

I create my own graphic content to sell on shutterstock...but from last one year I am seeing 30-50% reduction in sales and earnings on shutterstock...

And if you search keyword "Green screen"... top results from first pages showing the content is from those thieves accounts...

Then there is no surprise original content creators like me see reduction in sales and earnings...

If you guys have free time once check the content in all accounts so that you find the truth in my words.

Note: I mailed shutterstock customer service with those links and screenshots as proof... But there is no proper action from them...

Thank you for the time put into this. Getty really doesn't like thieves, I hope they will deal with these ports more strictly than shutterstock.