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Adobe Stock / Max, can you help? (incorrect info about review process)« on: March 04, 2024, 07:37 »
Hello!
I have read that "files are processed in the order they arrive" and this is proven to be false, multiple times. There are a few files of mine, 2 of which in particular remain stuck in a rut for months (and still there) while others, which were reviewed much later, are processed by Adobe briefly. Contacting humans seems impossible and they always keep stating what has been proven to be not true. Can you somehow intercede between us humans and the file processing machine to point out that no, it is not true that files are "processed exactly in the order they arrive" and that some files get stuck there? I am not asking for help for me in particular, but for the problem in general. Thanks for your time and attention. 3
General Stock Discussion / Re: Open AI Sora text to video - unbelievable new AI video tool« on: February 16, 2024, 18:19 »Have you seen this? yep and waiting for https://stability.ai/stable-video 4
DepositPhotos / Re: Exciting News from Deposit Photos« on: February 05, 2024, 21:17 »[...] This part refers only to the fact that a customer who has acquired a license can reuse the file multiple times, I believe. This is not new. Of course in the case of training an Ai, this is only to prevent us from claiming the right to participate in the gain produced infinite times starting from our content. Something that Adobe Stock and Shutterstock SEEM to have addressed more fairly. After all, if we are not united, which we have amply demonstrated that we are not in the past (coalition, etc. when Shutterstock created the tiered system that resets at the beginning of the year, may all the Olympian deities curse them at once) at best someone will retire, perhaps on time, perhaps not, without making their own contribution at their own expense to the training of their inanimate working substitutes. Which I do not think will be particularly relevant. The only thing relevant is that millions of people contributing will join in. But , again, we have shown that we are no smarter than concrete as a category. 5
DepositPhotos / Re: Exciting News from Deposit Photos« on: February 05, 2024, 21:03 »I don't remember what was in the old contract, but the following passages, among others, are striking: yep, I read them this morning on my WC, that's the right place to be while reading such kind of content. Notice: using ChatGPT Plus (GPT-4) to spot "generative ai related content" it didn't find anything. Reading by myself, I immediately spotted the problems: "We can do whatever we want, but we are not obliged to do anything, you could only go away, but we still have some rights in perpetuity, and if something is illegal in what we clam as legal, the rest remains legal. You can't use Ai, but we can use for free or not for free your copyrighted material for Ai training. And your moral right won't exist and even if we live using copyright, we piss on your copyright" - take it or leave it But there are SO MANY PEOPLE who don't read contracts that they won't give a *. This is the stage where they screw us all over, take all the money they can before they shut down, and eventually our copyright will have been LEGALLY drained (if you don't leave immediately) and the value transferred as datasets for training machines that will replace not only us, but any idiot capable of writing a prompt, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow any Ai capable of using another Ai. Welcome to the machine. I just want to remind you of one thing: model releases, no matter what is written in them, can always be revoked by people (other than "perpetual and irrevocable"! ) . There is not something such an irrevocable image right, because for human rights they are part of the rights of the human person. That is one of the reasons why there are Getty's "enhanced model releases," which I am careful not to use. We would take the moral responsibility of explicitly giving consent to train Ai's with people's biometric data, when it is already so much if these people lend themselves to help us in our work, certainly with compensation quite different from the world of fashion modeling and traditional advertising. Do we also want to bugger them? I certainly don't. Well, Deposit shifts the burden of this responsibility to us. 6
DepositPhotos / Are they next?« on: July 19, 2023, 12:27 »
I have a feeling that the next one to go down in flames will be Depositphotos. In my personal experience offline, but now also in my online experience with microstock agencies, you can immediately see that IT infrastructure and services are starting to malfunction, problems are not being solved, resources are not being treated with due care, whether they are human or assets of potential earnings, but ABOVE all business tools.
All the agencies you have seen fall one by one have presented the same characteristics. First you work poorly, then problems are not solved, meanwhile you make little money, then the end. What do you think? 7
Envato / Re: Envato Market Author Terms (No opt-out : just leave or submit)« on: May 12, 2023, 20:58 »(...) This also happens with video. There are plenty of EXCELLENT microstock and stock photographers and agencies with tons of wonderful works. They are not leaving. They are actively WORKING to feed the beast, because NOW this is a source of income. I saw also an incredible behaviour: someone is creating actively tons of composites. NOW! In a moment in which we all see Ai's coming: these things are the best to do composites. But these composites SELL , now. Now they earn money, they could do something with that money. And there is nothing we, as photographers and videomakers could do to stop these generative Ai to come. We have proven we are totally unable to unite and fight. So agencies will fight to defend some assets until they are worthwhile. I can see each and every agency change these rules: the last ones are ENVATO and ALAMY : they also included training of machines as a possible use. Ok, they offer an opt-out. But what does it means for you now? It means : you are not earning without any other effect that not earning. The beast will be fed with millions of millions of other excellent images AND videos. Maybe photography will return what it was before microstock. I also noticed that ugly form with Envato. But what effect will have to remove my things and not-earning? Nothing. We PROVEN we are not united. All the non-internet world proven to be unable to fight as a whole thing, as a "union". No political power, no legal power. Nothing. 8
Shutterstock.com / Re: SSTK (Shutterstock's stock) closed down 10.98% today - why?« on: May 06, 2023, 13:55 »Personally, I think the concerns over AI are overblown. AI has been around for some time but, has it really revolutionized anything? Not really. Does it have that potential? Maybe but, equally, it may just sit alongside traditional techniques. Good for some things not so good for others. (...) This sounds more or less like 2002 "digital will never replace film" 9
General Stock Discussion / Re: Generative AI - CHILD FORUM PROPOSAL (and a VERY BRUTALLY HONEST VIDEO )« on: May 06, 2023, 13:45 »I'm afraid he might be right, we'll see. I loved this sentence: "I am belly laughing at this stock agencies because they're bunch of thieving soul suckking scam-eyes who've been ripping photographers off for decades so fuck those guys..." I really don't believe that the Big 3 agencies will fall. It is human beings at the lowest level of the chain (we all), but capable of doing specific work that instead now no longer requires skill, knowledge, and commitment -- who'll lose their jobs replaced by typing by the first * who comes by (although there are great scripters, there are also scripters who delegate to other Ai , and it is still the nature of all this to make specific and specialized human skill increasingly irrelevant, making anything idiot-proof; if it's not today it will be tomorrow, the nature of all this is to be very fast, faster than us humans). But the agencies handle most of our royalties, they make more money than we do on what we produce - I don't think they will drop the bone that easily. While being disingenuous they will sell their skins dearly and say they care about us, our work, the value of copyright, and MAYBE do some legal battles, perhaps to manage the assets that feed the machine training. They will try to stay in the game, with or without us. They have the platforms, they have lawyers, they have facilities, they have sales capabilities, they have basic materials, they have customers and manage value. 10
General Stock Discussion / Re: Generative AI - CHILD FORUM PROPOSAL (and a VERY BRUTALLY HONEST VIDEO )« on: May 06, 2023, 13:34 »I'm afraid he might be right, we'll see. I loved this sentence: "I am belly laughing at this stock agencies because they're bunch of thieving soul suckking scam-eyes who've been ripping photographers off for decades so fuck those guys..." and I THANK you because I'm not a natural English speaker so this was too fast for me... I understood the general meaning of the sentence and the spirit, but I wanted to understand exactly. Thank you!!! 11
Shutterstock.com / Re: SS: Earnings total higher than detail breakdown« on: May 06, 2023, 04:22 »Yep, happened to me this morning. Nice surprise of $190! it's Ai Contributor Found. 12
General Stock Discussion / Generative AI - CHILD FORUM PROPOSAL (and a VERY BRUTALLY HONEST VIDEO )« on: May 06, 2023, 04:14 »
I don't know how to tell this to an admin. (see the subject)
But this video is a crystal clear and brutally honest thought that I found shared in some group in some social: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Gowh5paPo (title "A.I. Is Going to Destroy the Stock Photography Market (And It's Coming For Your Porn Too!)" by photographer Andy Hutchinson) I appreciate the part about porn and recognizing that it is all generative production of anything that can touch the senses (audio/video) and digitizable. If it can be digitally reproduced, an iA can do it, it's just a matter of time. Porn has always been a frontier and experimental market for everything: it works or it doesn't work, it can be done or it can't be done, both technically and legally, it is economically viable or not and on what terms. So I consider watching this video to reason, lucidly, remembering that when we feel fragile we tend to always listen to those who reassure us. it is really hard to know what to do in the future, and it would be very very nice to be able to reason ASSEMBLY with the platforms-they do not feel like needing us and paying us. In the same way customers would like to do vis--vis the platforms. Each of us is somewhere in this chain. 13
Adobe Stock / Re: Announcing Adobe Firefly A new family of creative generative AI models« on: March 22, 2023, 14:10 »Zorba, you need to be opted in to receive marketing emails in order to receive Adobe Stock Contributor related emails. Send me a private message here with your Adobe ID email address and I can check if we have the right email on your contributor account. I sent you some other private messages but I've never seen answers... the last was about PNG But thanks I'll check by myself about that! thanks! I want to keep this profile very private and non-retrievable Adobe is ok, but there are some other companies that are not so fair ! :-D 14
Adobe Stock / Re: Announcing Adobe Firefly A new family of creative generative AI models« on: March 22, 2023, 04:30 »Hi Everyone, I have this main question: I didn't receive anything at all ... Are there any settings (which ones?) that I have failed to set correctly? Can you help me? I try not to get spammed too much in general (not by Adobe, in general!) , but real communications I always want to have... Maybe in the year of transition from Fotolia I missed something and can't find it anymore, is that possible? Can you help? Or maybe not all contributors were involved, is that possible? 15
Dreamstime.com / Re: New submission form« on: February 14, 2023, 18:20 »Anyone see it yet? They never implemented a system to assign releases to multiple files in a group. Never! And we've certainly all asked them a million times. Of course a nerd has a chance, but as a nerd he or she quickly realizes that this is hogwash: the release must already be there and it must be referenced with an INTERNAL Dreamstime code, not with its own file name. The simplest thing would be simply to use OUR filename and that if the release is loaded multiple times with a fingerprint-like code check (hash md5, crc, sha ... any one) you consider that it already exists and ignore it, without blocking the workflow. But let's drop something like this: now on the main page you can copy data. But ALL of it! Obviously you will want to copy a selection of it. Is this possible? Of course! only from ONE file to ANOTHER file. Not from one to many. The most obvious and stupid thing that everyone would like to do, which is to set one or more MR or PR releases to multiple files ... cannot be done even though we have been asking them to do it for TEN HELL OF YEARS. Otherwise everything is beautiful. 16
Shutterstock.com / Re: Contributor Ugly Dashboard« on: February 14, 2023, 13:20 »Who cares any more? One of the first things to take into account in surveys is that the sample they primarily represent is "people who participated in the survey." 17
Adobe Stock / Re: PNG files on Adobestock - Some Questions« on: February 09, 2023, 21:10 »
Do they have to be PNG-16 or PNG-8, or are both okay?
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General Stock Discussion / Re: PNG with transparency - which agencies besides Adobe Stock?« on: December 25, 2022, 22:10 »@zorba transparent PNG or they simply are accepting another 2 formats besides JPG? 19
General Stock Discussion / PNG with transparency - which agencies besides Adobe Stock?« on: December 24, 2022, 21:46 »
Between August and October 2022 Adobe Stock is requesting and accepting PNGs with transparency.
What other agencies are doing this, if you know FOR SURE ? 20
Image Sleuth / 52112.com STOLEN CONTENT OF ALL KINDS« on: November 17, 2022, 09:31 »
52112.com is selling stolen content without shame. There is content from the best contributors on any major site. But isn't China part of the WTO? So we shouldn't have intentional copyright protections?
samples: https://www.52112.com/member_u_96_6.html https://www.52112.com/member_u_350_276.html By doing a bit of Googling with google images and your own images I think you can find the results. You cannot start from the home. There seem to be various Chinese who simply download and resell. These are only TWO very evident samples about content I know, because I love that creators. 21
iStockPhoto.com / Browser notifications "CHANGE" not working« on: August 17, 2022, 02:26 »
Since - they say -"they listened to us" and now there would be this wonderful and very useful information function tailor-made for us (thank you, how nice!) , I went to click "CHANGE" but nothing happens.
Exactly the same way nothing happens by clicking , exactly the same way, "ticket submit." And it's interesting that by contrast clicking on the link next to "forum", that one instead strangely works immediately. As if to say: help yourself? I don't understand why both adobe and getty go out of their way to disseminate information in a thousand different streams when all you have to do is send us an e-mail newsletter with information. Do you want to make the information (the same!) available in multiple channels? That's perfectly fine, but keep using the ones that have been working great for ages. Or at least make the new ones work. 22
General - Top Sites / Re: I'm the guy with the grey beard« on: June 11, 2022, 21:21 »Quote Now, Instead of pulling your punches because you "sell", it would be more helpful to know HOW MANY pieces you sell per DAY and how much money you make PER MONTH. This is useful. Looking at your photos can help us a lot. *YAWN* People don't get upset about other people's success. People get annoyed when someone comes in AS IF they have a two-meter-long dick when in fact they are just SAYING they have one. You come in here and tell OTHERS that they make useless posts, but your post only becomes useful if you show us these facts beyond talking about them. Let's see this beast, man. Otherwise your initial post you can say it out loud to yourself in front of a mirror. You have no real good advice for anyone to prove, numbers in hand, anything. Which wouldn't be a problem, if you didn't come in here looking like a know-it-all old fox teaching others how to live, and not doing nonsense, which you - the greater - don't do. Instead, you are identical to those you criticize. You're just saying --which is not so much more useful than advising people not to hold the cap in front of the lens-- that improving yourself is a good thing and shooting what FOR YOU sells is a good thing. Wow, that's brilliant! 23
Adobe Stock / Re: Introducing the free collection from Adobe Stock« on: June 09, 2022, 23:40 »
I totally agree. And I apologize that my knowledge of the English language and use of translators may have made what I posed as a hypothesis more aggressive than determined and clear: an "if so, then so, otherwise something else" form. But you have made it perfectly clear that it is all fair. So I renew my apologies for the aggressive over-form: you do not deserve it, nor does the initiative. Thank you for your help. 24
Adobe Stock / Re: Introducing the free collection from Adobe Stock« on: June 09, 2022, 06:30 »
fact of which we have no possibility of having any knowledge, have we? 25
Adobe Stock / Re: Introducing the free collection from Adobe Stock« on: June 09, 2022, 06:26 »Mat will correct me where I am wrong, but here are the answers to your questions: are you and adobe employee or do you have official sources with documents citing data to give these answers? I think this space should be leaved free for Mat only about answers, and for us to only ask questions, leaving private messages the privileged way for us to discuss, in this specific thread. |
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