Are they afraid that there are some type of "bots" that are creating large quantities of (AI?) images and constantly submitting perhaps?

I am actually pretty sure that is the case. If you look at some ports with 10.000+ AI generated images you will often find image descriptions that do not really describe what is in the image at all! Sometimes you will have something like "young woman blah blah blah at beach" and there is no beach in the picture, just to name one example. I suspected for a long time that there are some people who have automized the whole process of copying image descriptions from other people, using it on AI generators and then having the images submitted to Adobe without any human ever looking at the images. Some of the really huge mistakes in images like people obviously having 3 arms etc. also makes it look like no human ever looked at the images.

Where can you check your acceptance rate and rank as a seller? Thanks in advance for reply, can�t figure out where to find tjose

I do not think Adobe shows you your acceptance rate, you have to keep track of that yourself.
But your rank you can see on the upper left corner of your dashboard. You have to select a timeframe (week, month, year, all time)  from the drop down menu and then it will show you your rank for that time.

For example, the Shutterstock's deal with OpenAI is for 6 years. After that, OpenAI has to licence the images again.

This means OpenAI will have access to new submitted photos for 6 years. After 6 years they will not get any new photos. There is no need to licence old photos that were already used to train their AI again.

Quote from: stoker2014 on January 04, 2024, 16:50

Quote from: Orchidpoet on January 04, 2024, 14:47

Can someone please advise me how I can disable my portfolio in SS? Thanks.

In your profile settings.

Thanks. I went to the profile page, and disabled "data licensing", but still keeps the "video licensing" for the time being.

I am going to see if deleting "data licensing" can stop those 0.25 per clip sales. If they continue, I will disable "video licensing" as well.

Data licensing is for AI training and the payment for this is listed in the last column of your earning summery, under "contributor fund".

Has anyone recently been paid from the Contributor fund? The last time I did it was May 2023. It seems strange to me that since then not a single cent!

I am surprised people kept thinking they would get infinite and regular payments for this. Once an AI is trained, it's trained, it doesn't need your images every month or every couple of months. And the amount of new Ai image generators developers want to create is also not infinite, so your images will only be needed when someoen wants to develope a new product - and the big players in the game like DALL-E and Midjourney just scrap google foir images to train their AI anyways and don't pay for them on microstock agencies.

So prices are going up and we are getting some relief for inflation which is very good.

You do realize that Adobe has neither changed their customer prices nor their contributor comissions, right?

https://helpx.adobe.com/de/stock/contributor/help/royalty-details.html

https://stock.adobe.com/plans

Quote from: Her Ugliness on December 27, 2023, 07:34

Quote from: stoker2014 on December 27, 2023, 04:52

 If you believe religion and historical facts, then he can hardly be called a Jew.

Facts are nothing to "believe" in. Unlike religion, they are not optional.

And of course he was a jew. Which historical fact is supposed to contradict this?

These are standard questions for atheists. There are no answers to them that would suit atheists.

And this is a standard evasive reply from someone who doesn't have an answer. 

Ouch, had a whole batch of AI images rejected - This never happened to me before. Real photos, yes, that has become the new normal, but with AI almost everything used to get accepted.
Looks like someone is very grumpy about having to work on Christmas.... 

Adobe definitely changed something: now instead of waiting 2 months for reviews , my jpegs are reviewed in 1-3 days

This happened to me last week, but only for newly submitted images. They were reviewed within 1-3 days, while I have many images still waiting to be reviewed for over a month.

But it has stopped now. I had no images reviewed in 5 days, neither new nor old.

So, what is the point of creating this post if not to show the rejected images and find why you got such rejections? It's a frivolous to assume Adobe, the biggest company in the photography area don't know what they do, but you know. Many experienced people here can help you to find some weak points in your job and to resolve this rejection problems.

This has been going on and on and on for months now. The point is to complain and maybe to finally get Matt to aknowledge that there is something wrong. Rejections have become CRAZY on Adobe. I used to have a 95% acceptance rate, it went to below 40% from one day to the next and I stopped submitting real photos to Adobe completely, because the reject so much (at the same time they accept almost all my AI images, even though the full size quality doesn't even come close to the quality of my real photos) and there have been multiple threads by contributors reporting the same issue.
 Yet Matt claims "everything was fine and nothing changed" when people keep telling him over and over and over again that this is not the case.

Now, if this were just posts from new contributors who do not understand the quality requirements for submitting this would be one thing, but the complains come from experienced contributors who have been doing this for years and when the acceptance rate changes so drastically for so many people from one day to the next, then it seems right to assume that a bunch of people not suddenly and simultaneously lost their abilities to take good quality photos and the problem is with Adobe instead. But to this day Matt refuses to aknowledge that.

What is the point in showing Matt individual photos? I've seen  the extreme level of nitpicking he goes to to justify rejections (like "The photo shows different kind of plates!"). This is not an individual problem, but a large structural problem on Adobe. Nitpicking single photos will not solve this problem.

We improved our tools which caused efficient review turnaround time.

a.k.a. "We use AI to review images instantly and filter out images the AI consideres as not suitable before the rest is passed on to the real human reviewers".

- DALL-E beats Midjourney in almost every aspect (except realism).  And it has the huge advantage that you can ask it to adjust the generated images (no need for inpainting or using generative fill, just prompt in ChatGPT what needs to be changed).

Midjourney can do that too. You can mark what part of the image you want changed and it will do that.

Yeha, already have this since a few days ago.
All I see is a "fancy looking" new design that does really nothing but take away multiple very useful features. There is absolutely no benefit to this change. Just a new look, less functionality.

As you said the ability to copy keywords is gone and this is one I use all the  time to keyword images with similar topics. But also the keyword tool is gone - one of the only real good features, if not probably the only good feature, SS added in recent years and a really useful tool I used each and every single time to check whether I had missed some obvious keywords.

I don't see the point. You want a new design? Sure, if that makes you happy. But don't remove features with it.... again.

The feedback option is pointless. When they changed the dashboard I saw not a single contributor who said he liked the new version. Everyone hated it it. I know I still do, with a passion. I hardly check my earnings on SS anymore.
THey also had a feedback option and I cannot believe they got one single positive feedback. Yet the horrible new dashboard was never changed back.
I send them very detailed feedback with a list of all the things I did not like about the new design and even with explanations why they were a huge downgrade. Seems like this was a waste of time. Seriously doubt a human even ever saw the feedback.


For now the new submit/edit page does not bother me much as SS gives me the option to change back to the old design - But I suspect there will be a time when they make that option unavailable and I will be stuck with this new page.

One could almost think SS is really trying very very hard to get rid of as many of their contributors as possible.