Adobe collection: 890,627,343 results in all

Exclude Generative AI : 460,023,703 results in all
Generative AI only :      430,611,070 results in all

In a very short time, a majority of products for sale at Adobe will be generated by AI without any human skill!

Quote from: DiscreetDuck on February 25, 2026, 20:15
Adobe collection: 890,627,343 results in all

Exclude Generative AI : 460,023,703 results in all
Generative AI only :      430,611,070 results in all

In a very short time, a majority of products for sale at Adobe will be generated by AI without any human skill!

Sad isn't it? But whether it's human "skill" or not, some human created those images, using AI. Unlike the other part of this revolution, where buyers will create their own images, without any of us other humans at all.

Adobe have done what they wanted, use human data to train an AI.  Its absolutely clear they see the future as entirely AI generated with humans just keeping the data pond filled with new styles and techniques.

Not doing editorial means i suspect they'll go entirely in this direction.


Of course, eventually this fails as users will generate their own AI not buy someone elses prompt spam AI so the model will need to shift again.

Quote from: gnirtS on February 26, 2026, 04:38
Adobe have done what they wanted, use human data to train an AI.  Its absolutely clear they see the future as entirely AI generated with humans just keeping the data pond filled with new styles and techniques.

Not doing editorial means i suspect they'll go entirely in this direction.


Of course, eventually this fails as users will generate their own AI not buy someone elses prompt spam AI so the model will need to shift again.

Yes i guess you are correct, i also think people will create there own AI content in the near future, youtubers could probably soon just record an audio voice over and the video will be automatically created by AI based on what the person is talking about.

Hard to say how this will play out.  So far my sales have not been affected by all the AI slop. But where will people put their creative works if they are not been compensated.

Seen a couple of big Youtubers who were shilling for AI a few months ago complained that people were ripping off their content using their likeness and voice. 

I can't keep up with all the AI lawsuits. 

Also read AI has hit a brick wall.  Larger models are not improving AI slop output as they initially expected.

Running costs are a problem too.   

If AI is nearly half the collection, what is interesting is that I have not seen my royalties drop in half. What does that say?

After two years of AI, it seems to me that this technology hasn't been very well received by end consumers.

AI, in the current popular imagination, is associated with low-quality products due to its undeniable ease, cost-effectiveness, and speed of creation. The lack of "human effort" causes the final product to lose value.

There have been numerous cases where consumers have protested against the use of AI in advertising, comics, films, newspaper articles, etc.

And many have backtracked, going back to doing things the way they were done before so as not to lose their audience.

As a result, I believe that AI can only be well received if its use is not visible. As in software, for example.

I don't have any AI images in my portfolio, I've opted out of unlimited download programs, and I've never selected my images for free image sales... but in 2025, I closed with a 14.17% increase in earnings compared to 2024 (I've been doing this for almost 20 years).

I hope I'm not wrong, but I believe there are still clients who seek authenticity and quality, even if it costs more and takes longer to achieve.

As DiscreetDuck wrote, AI content has equaled non-AI content in 2.5 years. AI production is 10 times faster. And that's why the only problem I'm worried about is invisibility due to algorithms.

Quote from: wds on February 26, 2026, 13:46
If AI is nearly half the collection, what is interesting is that I have not seen my royalties drop in half. What does that say?

My Adobe royalties have kept up. I have added new images, (none AI) which get new sales and interest. But SSTK is dead, DT is dead, iS is holding it's own, P5 is dead...

Agree Bauman I follow a few artists on Twitter/X the backlash is strong and consistent. 

Perhaps buyers don't want to risk any backlash if they use AI in their campaigns, also a lot of buyers will be creatives and don't want to feed the machine.  Anyway God bless them and I'm grateful for their business.

20 years - great and very encouraging, I'm around 7 years in. 

The problem with AI's images and videos is that 99% of them are crap because they're made by people with no skills.

AI has given millions of unskilled people the ability (or the illusion) to compete with professionals in photography, illustration, advertising, video, programming, music, or writing... but they don't realize that without the proper skills, they're only capable of producing crap. And these contents are invading the web.

@angelacat
Sure. It's encouraging, but things were much better years ago. I'm full-time, and now it's a constant struggle. With all these changes, it feels like every year could be my last professional year.

Quote from: wds on February 26, 2026, 13:46
If AI is nearly half the collection, what is interesting is that I have not seen my royalties drop in half. What does that say?

Yep my income on Adobe is still going strong in 2026 and I've no AI.

Quote from: Uncle Pete on February 26, 2026, 19:58

Quote from: wds on February 26, 2026, 13:46
If AI is nearly half the collection, what is interesting is that I have not seen my royalties drop in half. What does that say?

My Adobe royalties have kept up. I have added new images, (none AI) which get new sales and interest. But SSTK is dead, DT is dead, iS is holding it's own, P5 is dead...

my latest test is writing an ebook for KDP - spent several hours over 2 days with chatgpt to produce a 45 p book to which i'll add 50+ images. all generated from a minimal itinerary for my small group tours

Quote from: Pacesetter on February 27, 2026, 00:09

Quote from: wds on February 26, 2026, 13:46
If AI is nearly half the collection, what is interesting is that I have not seen my royalties drop in half. What does that say?

Yep my income on Adobe is still going strong in 2026 and I've no AI.

just wait to see what will happen when Adobe start to add  "datum" and "data" keywords in your work / portfolio

Quote from: cascoly on February 27, 2026, 02:14

Quote from: Uncle Pete on February 26, 2026, 19:58

Quote from: wds on February 26, 2026, 13:46
If AI is nearly half the collection, what is interesting is that I have not seen my royalties drop in half. What does that say?

My Adobe royalties have kept up. I have added new images, (none AI) which get new sales and interest. But SSTK is dead, DT is dead, iS is holding it's own, P5 is dead...

my latest test is writing an ebook for KDP - spent several hours over 2 days with chatgpt to produce a 45 p book to which i'll add 50+ images. all generated from a minimal itinerary for my small group tours

Sounds like an interesting adventure. Best wishes.

Quote from: DiscreetDuck on February 25, 2026, 20:15
Adobe collection: 890,627,343 results in all

Exclude Generative AI : 460,023,703 results in all
Generative AI only :      430,611,070 results in all

In a very short time, a majority of products for sale at Adobe will be generated by AI without any human skill!

In only 2 weeks:

More than 3 millions generative AI products were added in the AIdobe collection.
Less than 2 millions for non AI products, made by human.

Soon Ai garbage will learn from Ai garbage.     

Quote from: Madede on March 11, 2026, 10:59
Soon Ai garbage will learn from Ai garbage.     

Sure! it remembers me something I already wrote in 2023:

Quote from: DiscreetDuck on June 14, 2023, 14:43

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on June 14, 2023, 13:36

It is funny watching self professed "prompt gurus" write essays on the Midjourney Discord with incredibly flowery prompts and get results indistinguishable from the next person who uses a couple of words.

As long as you can write a sentence, take a few minutes to look at what other people have used and spend a bit of time learning the basic commands you can tailor results as much as anyone. You can produce results as good as anyone else right away, and tailor the results to whatever style want after an afternoon's practice.

If this wasn't the case it would be a huge failure of Midjourney. The whole point of it is to allow people get results with basic prompts. And lets not forget you can now feed it images and get a descriptive prompt, reverse engineering a prompt to get similar results.

Yes, it's like eating vomit, then vomiting again. Reverse vomiting produces a new vomit  oh sorry for my particular humour which may offend these self-proclaimed artist teleprompters, which before the use of AI only produced visual crap. They now think they are Picasso. It also reminds me of modern music, where the sound produced by the remixed singer voice evokes in me the idea of ​​digital vomit.

I think this metaphor is the correct one. It can occur following a massive ingestion, and it arises expeditiously. It is not very appetizing and is particularly repellent. But when the sheeps have nothing but vomit to eat, they won't find it too bad.
Imagine the dunce of the class who discovers chatGPT, uses it, proudly declares: "I wrote it myself", and who ends up being convinced of it himself.

It's very hard to get rid of vomAIt...

Quote from: Madede on March 11, 2026, 10:59
Soon Ai garbage will learn from Ai garbage.     

AI is not trained on AI. That's why the agencies got so picky, very fast, back when this started. GIGO if you train AI on AI it creates a terrible problem with reality vs training. Errors train and create more errors. The idea of only using real photos or art for training is solid science. I'd even question using any human created illustrations, unless they had some way to make sure they don't get into the pool with real images.

But meanwhile. No AI isn't supposed to be used, to train AI for realistic or accurate image creation. AI can train other AI models, or tune them, but that's not the same as image creation.

AI still makes nice 7 finger hands, mechanically impossible devices, illogical physics or balance, and produces grotesque human or animal features. AI doesn't understand function. That's a major flaw. When AI knows that a sloth has three toes and most humans have five fingers, then things will get more interesting.

AI is "the next big thing" and I hope it gets replaced by something else that isn't replacing us.