Hi

I am European and I like all of european contributors I recveive in USD on my PayPal account. So This is what i do.
 I opened an account on a FX broker (that suport Paypal), inside the Broker I create an MT4 USD account and another MT4 account in EUR.

Then I send my money in USD from PayPal to the brooke. It�s like an instant payment (literaly take a new seconds) in USD to my MT4 USD account. And then I convert my money from the MT4 USD to the MT4 EUR account. That way i have a much better rate conversion rates then PayPal. And even better if involved more money. The only issue is that I have to send it back again to PayPal but in EUR that time, (you have to withdraw from the broker to the same way you deposit the money) And finally withdraw from PayPal to my Wise account in Euros or another EUR Bank account, ias free.

Is seems a lot of work, but it�s really easy, sometime I do a small FX trade to justify having an account on a Broker and that�s it.

Best regards to you all

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If you are referring to this, it means "adobe illustrator".

Quote from: thx9000 on November 15, 2023, 10:31

There was a very sharp decline in sales for me beginning of this month. Very unusual for this time of the year. Must be another search engine tweak or the cumulative effect of their clueless management

I have seen a sharp decline both this month and last month when compared to the rest of the year.

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Quote from: Injustice for all on November 01, 2023, 13:19

I'm just wondering one thing that I really can't understand:

"given your considerable experience in microstock,didn't you realize that you were uploading content that violated the upload guidelines?"yes,you knew but you did it anyway.

As I wrote I am not aware of any images in my current portfolio which would violate the upload guidelines for AI.

I don't know this,but what I see is that your problem doesn't seem to me to be related solely to AI.

I say this because in the response that you received and that you reported here,it does not seem to me that there is reference to the fact that you have violated the guidelines regarding AI,but that you have violated intellectual property rights.

I had another look at the message from contrib support and it definitely says AI content:
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Your account was blocked after we noticed that you have submitted Generative Ai content that is not within our guidelines.

You have submitted files that refer to famous artists, people, characters from popular culture, and/or other existing subjects such as video games in the image, title or keywords. We take intellectual property rights very seriously and your uploads are a violation of these rights and thus violate the upload guidelines.

Your account will remain blocked until further notice.
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Edit: Sorry for the confusion: I had omitted the first line in my earlier post because I had already talked about it being triggered by AI related images.

I meant exactly this when I wrote: "your problem doesn't seem to me to be related solely to AI".

the real problem is that you submitted content that infringes intellectual property rights,whether they are AI content or not.

did you reference other artists in the prompt?Have you created AI content that featured famous people or characters?Have you included names of well-known characters,people or artists in the description or keywords?

I don't even want to know,I'm just telling you that you were blocked for one of these reasons.

However,in my opinion,if it was an isolated mistake,you will probably be unblocked.

if there is anything else,I don't know,only you can know.

Personally I find the quirks and imperfections very interesting. It feels like the ai is striking back and making it their own as opposed to the prompters creation.

With a buyers hat on, I am very grateful that Adobe is offering a huge gen ai collection. I have asked many friends with businesses, they have all tried prompting and been more than disappointed with the results.

They have no time for that and will happily buy from an agency that offers a wide selection.

That includes people who have a good basis in photography or art, it simply takes much too long to learn the right prompts to get the result you want.

I also don�t think that the �masses have no talent�. They aree simply not trained in art, like they might not be trained in music or metalwork or sky diving.

But everyone can learn to create, like everyone can learn to do photography.

Ai just speeds up the learning process, because you just have to focus on the end result and don�t have to learn the individual technique like oil painting, watercolor, papercut or photography.

Quote from: thx9000 on June 14, 2023, 05:10

Almost everything looks very similar, like it's gone through the same "art" filter.

Either many people are purposefully going for the same effect, because it is popular, or they do not know that they can influence the look of an image by describing for example light conditions and you can achieve images that look "artsy" and overprocessed or images that look like more like candid photos, but I think there is some great diversity there, especially since not everyone is using the same AI generator.