What is the point of having to choose categories, if the search is done by keywords? Better to keep things simple, fewer requests to the server equals faster response.

Well, $100 made sense years ago when DT worked well and could be reached in a few weeks/months, but this situation has changed. While it is true that they are within their rights since it is known and agreed information, it would be good if they knew how to adapt to their new situation and lower that limit, especially given that payment is an automatic and cost-free process.

And if they are not able to automate, it is because they are outdated and out of the market, and therefore they will die little by little, ergo it would make no sense to continue uploading content there.

Is it worth uploading AI to vecteezy?

"Dreamstime makes it extremely easy to upload." 
  extremely?? 

For me it is one of the most tedious to upload, so much so that I hardly upload anything there anymore.  2023 stopped selling me almost nothing, and in 2024 nothing. Port of almost 30k images.

yeah, it's been much slower these last few weeks. I continue uploading as I usually do, they just accumulate. I see that images uploaded two days ago are approved, but those uploaded a week ago are still in the queue.

I upload to fineartamerica and pictorem those photos that I think might look good in a canvas  in someone's living room or a mug, but I only make less than $50 a year.

Yeah, same here, 3 approved out of 100 sent this past week.

"0.66$ per image/video/graphic/template per year."

  I have 15k photos, x 0.66$= 9.900$ / per year, so.... nope.   

Quote from: Yakystockero on May 13, 2023, 14:44

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on May 13, 2023, 09:09

The programmers have appropriated copyright work to make their product, and as proved in the paper I referenced that work is still accessible using the right prompts (though this is not all that relevant as the issue is the appropriation of the work for commercial purposes without the copyright owner�s consent).

Although legally there may be loose details that programmers have infringed upon, the point of AI image creation, as a concept, is exactly the same one that we have all learned to read, write, draw or photograph. I have read dozens of books by cartier bresson, Avedon, Erwit, Leibovitz... and seeing their photos is how I have learned to photograph, and I have created my own photographs with theirs in my mind.
That's the same thing they do, and it can't be avoided, because the photos are published, open to anyone's eye.

Years ago you had to pay to enter the museums, now it's not even necessary.

tell that to the musicians who got sued after listening to others work and using it it as "inspiration". 

fascinating how many stock photographer seem to have an international law degree.

I think there is a difference between inspiring and plagiarizing, in many cases separated by a fine line. That is why there are thousands of music plagiarism accusation cases that are resolved in favor of the plaintiff and many thousands more in favor of the defendant.

I'm just saying that things are not absolute black or white. And personally I have not seen any cases of plagiarism by AIs yet. It is like saying that the first photographer who took a photo of an apple on a white background has the right to accuse the next 30,000 photos of apples on a white background that are in the SS catalog.

yeah, 22 days here.  If more photos come in than come out, the queue will increase little by little, until the wave passes. You have to start uploading the content for Christmas right now!

I am using backblaze for years: affiliate link:  https://secure.backblaze.com/r/01nw5k

Yeah:

"Hey,

Thank you so much for your patience around our payouts to you, our community.

As you may be aware Talenthouse AG has undergone a significant corporate process involving merging companies, which means we aren�t able to get payments processed as quickly as we�d hoped. We�re disappointed that we were unable to pay you on time, and are working tirelessly to ensure payment is received smoothly from now on.

Rest assured you absolutely will be paid. We�re preparing our next payment schedules so we�ll aim to get you paid within the next few weeks.

Thank you again for your patience and for bearing with us as we organise internally. We couldn�t do what we do without you."

A search algorithm takes into account tens, if not hundreds, factors with different weights. And today thanks to AI these factors change automatically without human intervention.
Image resolution may be a factor, it may weight 0.1% or 10%. It is almost impossible for us to do tests from the outside since you can only modify one factor with each upload, and even if you delete and upload your image dozens of times, your position will be affected by the rest of the photos that have been uploaded in the meantime.

Probably what most positions an image is the view / download ratio, that's why SS prohibits you from buying your own images. For every reason that you think it does, you will find someone else whose experience tells you just the opposite.

It is also possible that the algorithm is a monkey dancing on a touch screen with the new photos and thus assigning them points.