For me too, they also accept everything that's not instantly rejected by their Artificial Stupidity algorithm.

Agree, it is quite easy and visible to ignore the obvious political threads. msg has quite a well organised community.

Also editorial/politics is always creating trends that we shoot for.

Stock has real world use content, it does not live in abstract fairyland with only roses and sunsets and only happy people.

Many of us upload activism content for lgbt rights, environmentalism etc�and many do editorial.

I really don�t understand people who shrink from politics. You cannot hide from real life. It is just not possible.

I feel that those who ask for it don't like what they read because the evidence challenging deep-rooted beliefs is often hard to swallow. 

Tell us about the pricing policy of Adobe. Can all citizens of Russia use Adobe programs for free?
Citizens of which other countries can use Adobe programs for free? For example, - North Korea, Iran, Belarus?

It seems that they can't get any new subscriptions.
But if they got one already and it expired, it is renewed for free.

You said you like sharpening with Topaz AI.
I must say that I am also impressed with the SuperSharp AI "extra" from Luminar AI.

It is inventing blurry details with surprising precision, without destroying the image with those ugly contour artifacts specific to the old-school sharpening methods from LR or PS.

Good month for me.
Second best May behind May 22 and the best month of this year.
Adobe was #1, slightly better than SS.

https://www.alamy.com/big-block-letter-text-panorama-at-entrance-to-plaza-independencia-famous-tourist-landmark-in-mendoza-argentina-city-park-center-image544143330.html?imageid=6E470E45-00CE-43A9-9517-15CFC16CC962
[Super sharp 3x2 stack stitched together,  wind in top left treetop. Rejected for "Quality"]

Check the tiles in the foreground.
The stitching failed. You can clearly see the misalignment even on that low res photo.

Sorry, but that rejection is justified.

Ha!
It was not instantly rejected as it was for the previous 6-7 times I tried.

6 hours after, it is still in the pending queue. This may work, looool!
 

I noticed that some photos are instantly rejected (a minute or so after the upload). Moreover all subsequent attempts are also rejected instantly, no matter how many times I retried (even several weeks apart).

When it doesn't happen, the photos are staying in the queue for a day or two and then are approved 100% of the time.

The instant rejection is only for noise/pixelation... Obviously there is an algorithm doing this pre-check before humans go through the same stuff and just click the accept button.

My conclusion is that the algorithm is confusing some dense urban skylines and buildings with regular patterns of windows/details (like in Miami, see the 100% zoom below) with pixelation/noise, thus instantly rejecting perfectly fine photos.

Quote from: oooo on May 20, 2023, 14:07

it would be absurd getting some ridiculous compensation

At the moment, I am satisfied that AI pays good money for his training. I think that if AI has prospects and people will buy its product, the compensation could also be very good money. As a result, one could no longer even work, AI would work on the authors. 

My catalog is also there.  I would like it removed.  I do not use Wirestock.

Same here. I don't need blood-money 

Looks like the big fish has begun eating itself.

Take all its users content and use it to train an A.I. to make content that any buyer might want or need and getting progressively better with each iteration.

Contributers no longer required.

No new content.

A.I. not able to evolve without new and relevant content so produces homogenised results. The exact opposite of new, creative and relevant content.

Buyers drift away.

But even worse Buyers are out of business too because who needs them to find content for you when an A.I. can do that job too. And buy for who ... when an A.I. can do that job as well. And to sell to who because A.I. can create bots to pretend to be customers who don't buy ...

If that's the cause plus all the legal cases ongoing and coming then the writing is on the wall.

This is the icon shown in Microstockr for those earnings. I believe that it's generated by SS and made available through their API.

It also bothers me that I opted out back in February, and I still see my images being used to train my competitors, without my consent.

The question is, did anyone else was able to redeem it's 2023 code? If not it seems it was a hasty decision to give them away anyway but weren't prepared for it. Otherwise you are just having bad luck I guess.

Yes, I have all apps active for one more year.